June marks six years since the TRC delivered their Calls to Action on the legacy of the Indian residential school system. Six months later, in December 2015, the commissioners delivered their final report, encompassing six volumes, and called what happened in the schools “cultural genocide.”
Calls to Action 71 through 76 deal with the children who went missing during their attendance in residential schools. Falling under the subtitle of “Children and Burial Information,” it calls, in part, for “records on the deaths of Aboriginal children in the care of residential school authorities to make these documents available to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.”
Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative
The finding of the remains of 215 children in an unmarked mass grave on the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School announced last week by the Tk emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation leadership, provides a stark reminder. Six years after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) on Indian residential schools levelled 94 Calls to Action, few of them have been completed.
(LEVI LANDRY / iNFOnews.ca) June 01, 2021 - 6:30 AM The finding of the remains of 215 children in an unmarked mass grave on the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, announced last week by the Tk emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation leadership, provides a stark reminder.
Winnipeg Free Press
Home to history
Seven Oaks House Museum, Winnipeg s oldest home, tells the story of a family and Manitoba in the 19th century By: Brenda Suderman | Posted: 3:00 AM CDT Sunday, May. 23, 2021 Save to Read Later
Writer Brenda Suderman and photographer Mike Deal continue to share stories and photos from inside the vaults and hidden corners of the city’s community-run museums. Recently they visited Seven Oaks House Museum at 50 Mac St., located midway between Main and Scotia Streets in West Kildonan. Considered the oldest house in Winnipeg, the property was completed in 1853 for John and Mary Inkster and their children. The nine-room Georgian style house, known for its large porches, cedar-shingled roof and symmetrical appearance, housed family members until the death of daughter Mary in 1912, who willed the large property to the City of Winnipeg. The museum operates on donations and a grant from the Cit
Winnipeg Free Press
Home to history
Seven Oaks House Museum, Winnipeg s oldest home, tells the story of a family and Manitoba in the 19th century By: Brenda Suderman | Posted: 3:00 AM CDT Sunday, May. 23, 2021 Save to Read Later
Writer Brenda Suderman and photographer Mike Deal continue to share stories and photos from inside the vaults and hidden corners of the city’s community-run museums. Recently they visited Seven Oaks House Museum at 50 Mac St., located midway between Main and Scotia Streets in West Kildonan. Considered the oldest house in Winnipeg, the property was completed in 1853 for John and Mary Inkster and their children. The nine-room Georgian style house, known for its large porches, cedar-shingled roof and symmetrical appearance, housed family members until the death of daughter Mary in 1912, who willed the large property to the City of Winnipeg. The museum operates on donations and a grant from the Cit
The name lives on in nearby Cooper Lake State Park. Author: Sean Giggy Updated: 8:24 AM CDT May 3, 2021
Texas is full of towns with weird names. Many of them are still around today, but 90 minutes east of Dallas is a place that has not gotten better with age: Granny’s Neck.
Yes, Granny’s Neck is a real place. At least it was until 1991, when it went under water.
“That’s right. Granny’s Neck’s at the bottom of the lake,” said John Sellers, mayor of Sulphur Springs, a town 20 minutes from Granny’s Neck.
Specifically, Jim Chapman Lake, also called Cooper Lake.