Dozens of cedars were planted on Sunday at Sandy Pool Regional Park in Cowichan. Many elders of the Cowichan Tribes have close ties to the St. Mary's residential school in Mission.
Three First Nations recently won back a swath of their territory next to the site of St. Mary’s Indian Residential School, which ran operated for more than a century. As the nations move forward with plans to develop the area through a precedent-setting land back agreement, survivors and their communities are re-examining the relationship between stolen children and stolen land that cost them the area in the first place.