About 40 people gathered at the break of dawn Saturday along the Atlantic coast near Louisbourg, N.S., for a Mi'kmaw sunrise ceremony to kick off National Indigenous Peoples Day.The ceremony was led ...

Sipekne'katik First Nation is a Mi'kmaq community of 2901 members and is located in Hants County, Nova Scotia, near Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia. The land spans roughly 12.13 square kilometres and is ...

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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: ...

Googoo attended the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in Nova Scotia from the ages of 4 to 14. It was the beginning of a long and painful separation from her mother.

SHUBENACADIE, NS, Sept. 30, 2021 /CNW/ - The Residential School System was part of a shameful colonial policy that removed Indigenous children from their families and communities, not only denying ...

Members of Elsipogtog First Nation commemorated the life of Elder Sarah Simon this week. Simon was a former band councillor, a mother of 19 and was believed to be the oldest survivor of the ...

The Shubenacadie Residential School operated from 1929 to 1967, and the building burned down years later. A plastics factory is now at the site.

Operated by the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Halifax until 1956, the institution was the only school of its type in Atlantic Canada. It was closed in 1967 and burned to the ground in the 1980s.

Nancy’s is one of the 16 recorded deaths at Shubenacadie Residential School, though Alan Knockwood says survivors and elders in the community have counted at least 138.

The horrifying discovery of the remains of 215 children at a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C., has spurred a similar investigation and search of the former Shubenacadie Residential ...