2016-09-09 | A 12-year-old Ojibway boy who died from hunger and exposure after trying to find his way home from a residential school is the inspiration behind a new project from Gord Downie. details
2016-08-22 | Indigenous Canadians taken from their homes and their culture suing Ottawa, decades later, over the federal government’s duty to them. Thousands of children taken from their homes. A lost cultural identity. A painful, but little-known or -understood chapter in Canada’s history. details
2016-04-15 | The event was elegant, the food magnificent and the audience dressed in finery. The fundraiser Gala was supported by industry, individuals and the community with enormous thanks to the Squamish Nation for their generous contributions to the pursuit of justice for Canadian Day Scholars, survivors of the residential school regime. details
For more information, please contact:
Jo-Anne Gottfriedson, TteS Day Scholar Coordinator
200-330 Chief Alex Thomas Way
Kamloops, BC V2H 1H1
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E: jo-anne.gottfriedson@kib.ca
W: www.tkemlups.ca
Garry Feschuk, Hereditary Chief/Councilor
P.O. Box 740, 5555 Sunshine Coast Highway, Sechelt, BC, Canada, V0N 3A0
Shíshálh Nation
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E: gfeschuk@secheltnation.net
W: www.shishalh.com
Karenna Williams, Peter Grant & Associates
900-777 Hornby St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 1S4
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Toll-Free:
E: kwilliams@grantnativelaw.com
W: www.grantnativelaw.com
Patric Senson, Phillips Gill LLP
Toronto Ont
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E: patric@legaladvocates.ca
W: www.legaladvocates.ca
Class Action claim filed in Federal Court on August 15, 2012. The lawsuit aims to close a gap in which thousands of daytime students at residential schools -- which operated from roughly 1874 until 1996 -- were denied monetary compensation in the government's 2006 Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA) in the same manner as students residing in the schools. While the so-called "day scholars" could apply for individual assessment for abuses experienced in school, they were excluded from "common experience" compensation for having attended.
On June 3, 2015, Federal Court in Vancouver certified residential school "Day Scholars" class-action lawsuit.
Residential schools were boarding schools operated by the Canadian government as part of its "aggressive assimilation" policy which sought to assimilate aboriginal children into mainstream European Canadian society by adopting Christianity and speaking English or French. Canada's residential schools are marred by countless allegations of sexual, emotional and physical abuse of aboriginal children by staff. 150,000 aboriginal, Inuit and Métis children were forced to attend a recorded 130 residential schools across Canada between 1874 to 1996.
New research has found at least 3,000 children are now known to have died during attendance at Canada's disgraced Indian residential schools.
