CANADA
CBC News
As the residential school class action lawsuit against Ottawa gets postponed in St. John’s, one survivor says the Labrador school that was supposed to educate her turned into her prison.
Former students of residential schools in Labrador were at Supreme Court on Tuesday, expecting the trial against the federal government to go ahead, but the lawyers representing Newfoundland and Labrador, Moravian Mission and The Grenfell Association were not ready to proceed.
Nora Ford was five years old when she first attended the residential schools in North West River and Cartwright, where she went for 10 years, and says her mother thought she turned her daughter over to be educated and get a chance at a better life — but that’s not what happened.
“There are no words. I can’t describe how it felt — it was just as if I died,” she said. “I wanted to run away from the time I got there.”
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