Winnipeg Free Press By: Cody Sellar Save to Read Later
Dave Rundle was 10 years old in 1955 when a priest came to transport him and his five-year-old brother Lawrence to Fort Alexander Residential School. (Alex Lupul / Winnipeg Free Press)
His story doesn’t begin with a stranger in shadow-black darkening the door of his log cabin, but it is the first thing he mentions.
His story doesn’t begin with a stranger in shadow-black darkening the door of his log cabin, but it is the first thing he mentions.
It was the day in 1955 the priest came with papers in hand and the determination to steal away Dave Rundle, 10, and his brother Lawrence, 5, from their parents and grandparents, to force them into Fort Alexander Residential School.