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New Historica Canada podcast series features residential schools
Dr. Tricia Logan speaks on Métis experiences in residential schools on Historica Canada’s podcast.
Indian Hospitals Settlement Agreement information available
On January 25, 2018, former patients of Indian hospitals filed a $1.1-billion class-action lawsuit against the federal government.
An Opera and Symposium: Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau
The 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau is being commemorated by UBC Opera January 27 to February 2.
(De)colonial Spaces of Memory Activism
Dr. Tricia Logan, head of Research and Engagement at the Centre, will be offering a talk on the role libraries, archives and museums can play in decolonization.
Editorial: Confronting Myths About Indigenous Consent
The Centre fully supports UNDRIP legislation. Centre advisor Dr. Roshan Danesh offers an important editorial on the upcoming legislation soon to be tabled in BC.
The Life and Legacy of Chanie Wenjack
Secret Path Week is a national week to remember the death of Chanie Wenjack, a young Anishinaabe boy who died trying to run away from residential school and reunite with his parents. Chanie’s story sparked national conversation about the standards and practices of Residential Schools. During an inquest following his death, a jury of settlers […]
National Student Memorial Register honours children who died in residential school
The National Truth and Reconciliation Centre (NCTR) recently held a ceremony honouring the reveal of the National Student Memorial Register, which lists the names of 2,800 students who never returned home from residential schools. The register is intended as a reminder of the lives of the children that were lost as a result of the […]
Globe & Mail: Canada’s residential schools were houses of pain, but survivors want these buildings to be saved
Research done by Tricia Logan, the Centre’s Assistant Director of Research and Engagement, was featured in The Globe & Mail.
CBC: So we don’t forget what happened in those schools’: Remembering Indigenous children on Orange Shirt Day
The Centre’s Orange Shirt Day activities were featured in a CBC News article.
Canadian Geographic: RCGS, Orange Shirt Society launch Paths to Reconciliation
The Centre was recently featured in Canadian Geographic.