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Here's a look at the 14 sites across Manitoba officially identified as former residential schools. It includes several where First Nations are searching for unmarked graves.
A 2017 photo of the former residential school in Birtle, Man., from the Great Plains Publications book Abandoned Manitoba: From Residential Schools to Bank Vaults to Grain Elevators, by historian ...
In 1990, the then-head of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs told a Canadian Broadcasting Corp. program that he and many of his peers had been abused, including sexually, as residential school ...
WINNIPEG — A Manitoba cabinet minister who, three weeks ago, defended some of the intentions behind residential schools said Wednesday the schools were part of a genocide under a plan by former ...
WINNIPEG — A charge has been laid after a decade-long investigation into allegations of abuse at a residential school in Manitoba. The province confirmed Thursday a person was charged with one count ...
Canadian police say they have spent over a decade investigating abuse allegations at a former residential school for indigenous children. The government-funded Fort Alexander school in Manitoba ...
Brian Normand spent only a couple years—between the ages of five and six—at St. Charles Day Residential School in Manitoba, Canada, in the early 1960s, but he still feels the effects of that ...
An archaeological team found “no conclusive evidence” of human remains at the former site of Pine Creek Residential School in Camperville, Manitoba, Canada.
Maggie MacintoshLocal Journalism Initiative ReporterWinnipeg Free PressA trustee on Dauphin’s beleaguered school board is taking his colleagues to court o ...
The province will spend half a million dollars to support programs and services that work to support those who have been impacted by the ongoing trauma caused by the residential school system.
An estimated 150,000 Indigenous children were taken from their communities and forced to attend the schools. Though it's difficult to say exactly how many residential schools operated over their more ...