A tireless advocate, residential school survivor and accomplished hockey player has been posthumously inducted into the North American Indigenous Athletics Hall of Fame.
Loved ones, community members and a city councillor gathered at a Wellington Crescent park on Wednesday morning to officially unveil its new name, in honour of late Anishinabe elder and residential school survivor Theodore Fontaine.
A park in Winnipeg, located next to the site of a former residential school, has been renamed to honour the work of tireless advocate and residential school survivor Ted Fontaine.