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It was a long time coming, but now the survivors of the Ile-a-la-Crosse residential school are going to receive compensation in the same manner of the Indigenous survivors of the other provincial ...
Horgan also cited that in 2021 Nova Scotia excavators did not find the remains of 16 young people who attended the Shubenacadie Residential School. He added that 34 excavations on the Charles ...
its painful legacy endures, casting a shadow over Indigenous communities for generations. In Unama’ki (Cape Breton), Mi’kmaw children were sent to Shubenacadie Residential School.
Mason attends the nearby high school after two generations of her family attended the Shubenacadie Residential School. Her Grandmother and great-grandmother were both survivors of the school that ...
Dorene Bernard was 4 years old when she was sent to the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in Nova Scotia, where children were called by numbers and not their names. Bernard was often strapped ...
Dorene Bernard is a Mi'kmaq Grassroots Grandmother, Water Protector, Water Walker, and Survivor of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School. Ms. Bernard has over 25 years of experience in Social ...
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: ...
The former Shubenacadie Indian Residential School was nominated for designation under the National Program of Historical Commemoration by the co-chair of the Tripartite Culture and Heritage ...
Simon was a former band councillor, a mother of 19 and was believed to be the oldest survivor of the Shubenacadie residential school. She died last weekend in hospital at the age of 96. A funeral mass ...
The team of researchers searching for evidence of unmarked graves at the former Shubenacadie Residential School in Shubenacadie, N.S., has concluded its search without finding graves connected to ...
SHUBENACADIE, N.S. — 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 ...