Accounts of Residential Schools Continue

CTV
March 2, 2012

http://www.ctvvancouverisland.ca/2012/03/accounts-of-residential-schools-continue/

[with video]

The Federal Government’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has made it’s way farther down Vancouver Island, today reaching Campbell River. The commission is crossing the country to hear stories from survivors of Canada’s Indian Residential School System.

More than 150,000 First Nations children are believed to have gone through the system, which removed young children out of the public school system and forced them into native-only facilities across the country.

The commission is hearing from thousands of presenters who are sharing their stories which often include accounts of emotional, physical and sexual abuse.

The commission wraps up in Campbell River on March 2nd and then continues in Port Alberni on March 12th and 13th.