Residential schools

Reconciliation

Tla-o-qui-aht receives federal funding to conduct search for unmarked graves at former residential school site

Denise Titian
Feb 23, 2022
Reconciliation

Tseshaht plans to scan residential school site for unmarked graves in coming months

Karly Blats
Feb 11, 2022
Reconciliation, Island Families

‘Spirit of the Wolf’: Mowachaht elder reflects on a distant time at Christie residential school

Eric Plummer
Jan 28, 2022
Reconciliation

Residential school testimonies to be destroyed

Eric Plummer
Dec 17, 2021
Christie Indian Residential School was operated by the Catholic church, housing students for 71 years until the institution moved to Tofino in 1971.
Mental health, Reconciliation

‘It’s all catching up to me’: Residential school survivors face a distant past amid recent findings

Eric Plummer
Nov 18, 2021
BC First Nations

Vietnam veteran recounts life battling in war

Melissa Renwick
Nov 11, 2021
Martin Watts speaks to a crowd gathered on the former site of the Alberni Indian Residential School on Orange Shirt Day, Sept. 30. (Eric Plummer photo)
Reconciliation

‘Own the process’: Nations progress plans for former residential school sites

Eric Plummer
Nov 4, 2021
A crowd walks over the Orange Bridge to Maht Mahs gym on Sept. 30 to honour residential school survivors, and those who didn't make it home, for Orange Shirt Day and the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Karly Blats photo
Reconciliation

Hundreds walk on Orange Shirt Day to honour residential school survivors and those who did not make it home

Karly Blats
Sep 30, 2021
Residential school survivor Alice George holds up a sign while marching through the streets of Tofino to honour the survivors and victims of the residential school system on the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, on September 30, 2021.
Reconciliation

Tla-o-qui-aht organizes march in Tofino to commemorate residential school survivors and victims

Melissa Renwick
Sep 30, 2021
Reconciliation

Province provides $1.5 million towards Indigenous-led supports for residential school survivors

Melissa Renwick
Sep 27, 2021
Reconciliation, Education

Schools plan events leading up to National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

Karly Blats
Sep 24, 2021
Ahousaht Ha’wiih Hasheukmis (Richard George, standing in for his father Maquinna, Lewis George) and Hanuquii (Nate Charlie) stood before their people at the event.
Reconciliation

Moving forward in friendship: Urban Ahousaht group hosts healing event with local Catholic church

Denise Titian
Aug 18, 2021

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