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Starting this week, B.C. Housing will begin moving 43 people to the new shelter space, which will be utilized for the next year, as well as to other housing sites in the area.
Former day school buildings still used
A release says the buildings on the reserve are linked to two former day schools: Six Mile Creek and the Irish Creek School. One of the sites is still used for students, a second houses the band office, and a third is a congregation centre for elders.
The nation s letter says the community built the structures after being faced with an impossible choice between sending its children away to suffer abuse at residential schools in Kamloops or Cranbrook, or building its own schools.
It says it holds Canada and the Roman Catholic Church responsible for the cruel punishment children at the schools were forced to endure, which left many traumatized.