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May 30, 2018 · A reception was held at the Fort Frances Museum last Wednesday to mark the first official opening of two exhibits that focus on the history of residential schools. An introduction was given by museum curator Sherry George, followed by some words from Fort Frances Coun.
- Life Before Residential Schools
- Leaving Their Home and Family
- Arriving at The Schools
- Losing Their Culture and Heritage
- Emotional, Verbal and Physical Abuse
- Health Care
- Students Resorting to Suicide
“There’s a lot of things that are really, that are still in my thoughts of how we were loved by our parents. They really cared for us. And it was such a good life, you know.” — Bob Baxter, Statement to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Thunder Bay, Ont., 24 November 2010 “There was no drinking. There was, it was, like, it was a sma...
“I looked outside, my mom was, you know, flailing her arms, and, and I, and she must have been crying, and I see my dad grabbing her, and, I was wondering why, why my mom was, you know, she was struggling.” — Lynda Pahpasay McDonald, who was four or five when she was taken by plane from her parents’ home “You know what the Mounties, the priest, the...
“After I was taken there they took off my clothes and then they deloused me … ‘the dirty, no-good-for-nothing savages, lousy.’ And then they cut off my beautiful hair. You know and my hair, my hair represents such a spiritual significance of my life and my spirit … You know and I cried and I see them throw my hair into a garbage can, my long, beaut...
“A sister, a nun started talking to me in English and French, and yelling at me. I did not speak English, and didn’t understand what she, what she was asking. She got very upset, and started hitting me all over my body, hands, legs and back. I began to cry, yell, and became very scared, and this infuriated her more. She got a black strap and hit me...
“We had no place to drink water, and we had a little … bathroom there. And I was one of them that drank water from the toilet bowl, because I was caught by the matron, and after that they just locked it.” — Ron Windsor, telling the commission that students at his school were denied access to water at night “Every day was, you were in constant fear ...
“Even though a lot of times once somebody caught something and it spread in the whole school like wildfire, and they would just more or less, we had to live out whatever it is that we caught, whether it’s measles, mumps, sores, bedbugs, all that kind of stuff, we just had to live with it.” —Roger Cromarty on not being able to recall a doctor visiti...
“I must have been about 11, 12 years old, and I remember … and I had a plan, I was gonna go steal some Aspirins, which I did. I can’t remember what store it was, and, you know, later on that night I, I took a whole bunch of them, and I remember, you know, going to sleep, and then I remember the next morning, you know, someone waking me up, but I co...
Sep 19, 2024 · Bruyere, who grew up on Couchiching First Nation near Fort Frances and spent eight years at a residential school, has joined and helped organize other National Day for Truth and Reconciliation...
- Tyler Kula
Aug 18, 2021 · A Couchiching residential school survivor comes back to the former school site and what she called the root of her pain, to share her life story through a video documentary. Lila Bruyere, 68, is originally from Couchiching First Nation and resides in Sarnia.
Sep 3, 2015 · Nine residential schools in northwestern Ontario are mentioned in the day scholar class action. They are: Cecilia Jeffrey (Kenora, Shoal Lake) Fort Frances (St. Margaret's) McIntosh (Kenora)
Nov 1, 2018 · When the St. Margaret’s Indian Residential School on Couchiching Reserve, Ont., was being torn down during the mid-70s, Rudy Bruyere, a former St. Margaret’s student was rummaging through a former groundskeeper’s house. What he found that day was something he would never forget, said Curtis Bruyere, the eldest son of Bruyere.
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Dec 4, 2018 · Brian Tuesday was a little Ojibway boy when he was taken from his home at the Big Grassy River Indian reserve and moved to St. Margaret’s Indian Residential School at Fort Frances, Ontario, on the Canadian side of the Rainy River.
