MOOSE JAW Five hundred shoes that were once displayed on the steps of St. Andrews United Church have found a new home in at the Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery. Kayleigh and Cassidy Olson wanted to make sure the discovery of 215 children’s bodies at a residential school in Kamloops, would never be forgotten.
Kayliegh (left) and Cassidy (right) Olson created the Lost Children of the Residential School System exhibit. (Alison MacKinnon/CTV News) The sisters created the Lost Children of the Residential School System exhibit to help continue the conversation about residential schools. “It s pretty powerful, to look at them and see all the shoes and know that each shoe had a story and to know that somebody had laid those on the steps for a reason,” Cassidy Olson said Sunday.
A Regina Public School Board committee voted unanimously in favour of a motion to support professional development for school staff regarding topics related to gender and sexual diversity, at a meeting Tuesday.