Two former residential schools, Nova Scotia's Shubenacadie Residential School and Manitoba's Portage La Prairie Residential School, will soon be recognized as national historic sites by Parks Canada.

The Shubenacadie Residential School opened to students in 1930 in Shubie, N.S. The site had countless children from both Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik First Nations. The site of brick and ploughland ...

Mi’kmaq writers Shanika MacEachern and her daughter, third-grader Breighlynn MacEachern (Muinji’j), explain the traumatic impact of residential schools on the Mi’kmaq community in Muinji’j Asks Why: ...

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 ...

After the remains of 215 Indigenous children were found in Kamloops, B.C., places like Nova Scotia have started an investigation and search of the former Shubenacadie residential school site.

People at Sipekne'katik First Nation say education is the key, but they also want to see more than apologies from the governments after news that the remains of 215 children were found at a ...

Two women with a shared connection to a Nova Scotia residential school say that what’s needed after a sweeping report into the dark chapter of Canada’s history is more education.