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Paul, age 12, outside the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School on the day it closed in June 1967. She was the last Mi'kmaq to leave the school. (Submitted by Debbie Paul) Some of Paul's earliest ...
(Nic Meloney/CBC) Stolen children: The truth about Indian day schools and Shubenacadie Indian Residential School 'A huge task': Search will take time at former Shubenacadie residential school site ...
On Wednesday in Shubenacadie, survivors and their families marked ... by our families. And then when the Indian agent took us to the residential school it was a complete different environment." ...
Ground-penetrating radar has been used to search various locations at the Shubenacadie Residential School site ... and those who are triggered by the latest reports. A national Indian Residential ...
which is part of the Indian Residential School sub-committee, has been working for several years on investigations, like the one in Kamloops, at the former Shubenacadie Residential School.
Paul attended the former Shubenacadie Indian Residential School, open from 1930 to 1967. “I remember somebody coming to get me, it was a black car,” Paul said. She was at her grandmother’s ...
On National Indigenous Peoples Day, Nova Scotia honoured survivors of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School with the fourth annual Freedom Day march. Mark Carney’s Liberals win Canada’s ...
Dorene Bernard, a Mi’kmaq elder, confirmed Tuesday that ground-penetrating radar was used at the former Shubenacadie Indian Residential school in April and December of last year, but no graves ...
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s Sipekne’katik First Nation says it will begin an investigation this weekend of the former Shubenacadie Indian Residential school site grounds. In a news release, Chief Mike ...
He also noted that Archbishop Austen-Emile Burke gave an apology in 1992 in Indian Brook and Millbrook in 1993 for the damage caused by the residential school in Shubenacadie. “On behalf of ...
Describing a residential school in Pennsylvania, U.S. Army officer Richard Pratt said, “All the Indian there is in ... and local townsfolk in Truro and Shubenacadie, N.S., were enraged when ...