After the 2021 discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves on school grounds in British Columbia, the dark history of Canada’s residential school system and its traumatic impact on generations of Indigenous families once again became international news.
Outrage and sorrow poured out from survivors across the country. The scandal even prompted Pope Francis to issue a formal apology for the Catholic Church’s role in these atrocities.
Yet, while the last of these federally funded schools closed in 1997 (!), thousands of families remain forever altered by what happened inside them.
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