‘Chilling and Painful’
Aboriginal children in six residential schools across the country, including one run by the Presbyterian Church, were subjects in nutrition experiments in the 1940s and 50s, a food historian has revealed.
Indian Residential Schools
It Matters to Me
Nothing prepared me for the experience of sitting through the testimony of survivors of residential schools. I winced and I wept. It moved our church’s 1994 apology from my head to my heart.
Strength in Tears
I began each day of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission event by visiting the sacred fire. I’d sit on a dew-covered bleacher, fingers wrapped tightly […]