Please note that due to losses in the community, the first Speaker Series event has been rescheduled from tonight to October 23. Join us at the Ullus Community Centre at Mt Currie for a free talk from Dr Art Hister: Yes You Can: Easy Steps to Living a Happier, Healthier, Longer Life. Celebrity medic, Dr … Continue reading NEW DATE! Speaker Series: Dr Art Hister, October 23
September was a busy month for the Wellness Almanac as we acknowledged Reconciliation Week, made note of the changes that fall brings (new beginnings, preserving season and renewal, barred owls, coho salmon, and rosehips) and welcomed over 400 visitors to the blog. There were a couple of great fall recipes to add to the repertoire: … Continue reading Welcome October (and the September Round-Up)
If you know someone who Brings people and communities together in spirit of collaboration and cooperation, Empowers individuals and communities to make healthy lifestyle choices, Strengthens individual or community resilience through the provision of health or community services, and Exemplifies community caring and responsibility or who actively is working towards: Promoting Healthy Lifestyle Choices Increasing … Continue reading Nominate a Wellness Champion
One of the classic questions in the Pique's Best of Pemberton survey (now underway) has been "where do you get the best view of Mt Currie?" I suspect they took the question out because everybody said, "from my living room" - the truth is, there isn't a bad view of Mt Currie, and that's one … Continue reading Behind the Name: Mt Currie
I remember being 18 and travelling overseas - a maple leaf sewn on my backpack, proud to be Canadian. I remember when that changed. It took one day eight years ago when I attended a workshop filled with statistics. Among those statistics were items like: 90% of the Aboriginal population perished within two generations of … Continue reading Opinion: Why Reconciliation?
“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?
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
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