“Where are the Children? Healing the Legacy of the Residential Schools” is an online exhibit of photographs largely from public and church archival collections, compiled in the hope that it will bring healing and restore balance in Aboriginal communities by encouraging children to ask, and parents to answer, important questions about their family histories. How … Continue reading Exhibit: Where Are the Children?
Residential schools are a dark period in Canadian history that continue to cast a long shadow over our country. It is a difficult subject for aboriginal and non-aboriginal Canadians alike – albeit for different reasons. For aboriginal people the experience created a well of anger, pain, tragedy, and sadness. The well is so deep that … Continue reading Book Review: They Called Me Number One
Ursula Carus is an aboriginal woman from the Siksika First Nation in Alberta. She is currently a Counselor and Mental Health Team Lead at the Pqusnalhcw Health Centre in Mount Currie. We asked her to share insight into the impact of Indian Residential Schools as part of a special awareness raising effort for Reconciliation Week. … Continue reading On the frontlines: Q+A with Counselor Ursula Carus
A short factual film produced by The Legacy of Hope Foundation, the film is 27 minutes long and is a brief history of residential school experiences in Canada. The story is told by four people who attended residential schools and a grandson. The film stresses the systemic and purposeful agenda of the Canadian government and … Continue reading Film Review: Where Are The Children?
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada has a mandate to learn the truth about what happened in the residential schools and to inform all Canadians about what happened in the schools. Residential Schools for Aboriginal people in Canada date back to the 1870s. Over 130 residential schools were located across the country. The last … Continue reading A Week for Reconciliation
For more than 120 years, thousands of Aboriginal children in British Columbia – some as young as 4 years old – were sent to Indian Residential Schools funded by the federal government and run by the churches. Lil’wat children were taken to St. Joseph’s Mission at Williams Lake, St. Mary’s Indian Residential School in Mission, … Continue reading Join Together in Reconciliation: Announcing the first Reconciliation Week, September 16-22 2013
In our ongoing series of profiles of Pemberton Farmers' Market vendors, we're excited to introduce Tanina Williams. The Pemberton Farmers’ Market runs every Wednesday from 4pm to 7pm from June 19 to October 9, on Frontier Street (in front of the pharmacy and new liquor store), and features almost 20 different vendors, live music, community groups, … Continue reading Faces of the Farmers’ Market: Tanina Williams
Better at Home, a United Way managed program helping seniors remain independent, will be in Pemberton and Mount Currie in September to share findings on what the community is learning about local seniors’ needs and priorities. Attend a community forum to provide valuable feedback and input to help shape the programs in each community. Pemberton … Continue reading Event: Better at Home Community Forums, September 12 + 17
This annual event hosted by the Pemberton Women's Institute celebrates its 10th birthday on Sunday September 8. The event runs from 11am-3pm. Admission is by donation at the gate of the Pemberton Museum. The Country Fair showcases the agricultural heart and community of "Spud Valley" and celebrates the harvest season. Come for local produce, entertainment … Continue reading Event: Pemberton Country Fair, Sept 8
September is a time of renewal for most of us as we resume the schedules that have been set aside in favor of the wonderful spontaneity of summer. Fitness and dance classes, volunteer commitments, school and work routines begin again and we re-establish relationships that have been temporarily set aside. For some of us, health … Continue reading Wellness: “Pure water has no fish”
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