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	Residential Schools: Reliving a Painful Past By Catherine Rolfsen Vancouver Sun June 6, 2008 http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/features/apology/story.html?id=4218f9b6-2870-4f93-8c12-fd371e469432 METRO VANCOUVER - Holding an umbrella against the spring drizzle, Joe Aleck wandered through the Mission park that stands in the place of so many of his memories. Little more than ruins and a cemetery of battered crosses remain of St. Mary's Indian Residential School. "This was the boy's residence," Aleck said, standing before a concrete outline filled with long green grass. "All the boys were on the third floor. The second floor was the infirmary and medicine room," he said. "The first floor was the offices and the chapel." Aleck, a 76-year-old member of the Sto:lo First Nation, is about the best person you could have as a guide through the remnants of St. Mary's, B.C.'s longest-running residential school. He spent nearly half his life there: 10 years as a student; 13 as a teacher;
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