Parks Canada will soon recognize two residential schools as national historic sites: Nova Scotia's Shubenacadie Residential School and Manitoba's Portage La Prairie Residential School.

They blighted Indigenous lives for more than a century. Now their creation is being formally recognized as one of the events that helped shape today’s Canada. The federal government has put ...

Ground-penetrating radar has been used to search various locations at the Shubenacadie Residential School site in central Nova Scotia as part of investigations similar to those that uncovered the ...

Nova Scotia’s provincial Education Department has removed and apologized for racist material in a Grade 10 correspondence course that asked students to list the benefits of residential schools ...

For decades, former students of the Shubenacadie Residential School shared accounts ... But some, like Sipekne’katik First Nation in central Nova Scotia, aren’t waiting around for the cash ...

- A team of Nova Scotia researchers has confirmed they were unable to find any unmarked graves for students who died while attending the largest residential school in Atlantic Canada. Aug. 4, 2021 ...

The Nova Scotia government is waiving name change fees for residential school survivors and their families. In a press release, Premier Stephen McNeil says waiving the fees “will make it easier ...

the Nova Scotia government has scrapped a high school correspondence course that asked students to list the advantages of the residential school system. Malaika Joudry-Martel and her mother shalan ...

A team of Nova Scotia researchers has confirmed they were unable to find any unmarked graves for students who died while attending the largest residential school in Atlantic Canada. Enjoy the ...