Brandon Sun By: Colin Slark Save to Read Later
A section of land, with two separate but connected histories, lies along the Assiniboine River west of 18th Street in Brandon.
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A section of land, with two separate but connected histories, lies along the Assiniboine River west of 18th Street in Brandon.
The first is not a happy history. From 1895 to 1971, those that ran the Brandon Residential School took Indigenous children from their home communities in an attempt to assimilate them into colonial society established by European settlers.
A pair of students show off their what they picked from the field at the school farm in this photo from sometime between 1913 and 1915. (SJ McKee Archives, Brandon University)
Sixty-eight Ulster-Scots signs are to be installed at one of Mid and East Antrim’s main tourist attractions.
The signage panels funded by the Ulster-Scots Agency to the tune of £30,000 are to be installed at the upper path at The Gobbins in Islandmagee with 30 for the wooden fencing along the path and 38 on the path s handrails.
The project is expected to be completed by the end of March and will signpost sightseers to heritage sites in the borough.
The display will incorporate the history, heritage, flora and fauna and views at the clifftop location and highlight other places of interest “by educating the visitor on the history and geography of the area”.