CANADA
Ottawa Citizen
[with video]
MARK KENNEDY, OTTAWA CITIZEN
Published on: May 22, 2015
WINNIPEG – The personal discovery came about three years after Justice Murray Sinclair had begun his work in 2009 as chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
By then, Sinclair had heard heart-wrenching stories of cruelty and abuse from aboriginals who had spent their childhood in the residential schools established by the federal government and run by the churches.
And yet, there was one story he had never been told: that of his own father, Henry Sinclair, who died in 1994. One day while Sinclair was visiting his uncle, the truth emerged.
“He revealed during the course of our conversation that my father had been abused in residential schools. And I had no idea until he told me.”
Suddenly, says Sinclair, “everything clicked into place for me to explain why my father was the way he was.”
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