Grandmother and granddaughter take opportunity to learn together during pandemic – Anishinabek News
PETERBOROUGH — Grade 1 student and Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nation citizen Jada McGregor-Dickens enjoyed doing her schoolwork with her grandmother Jackie Esquimaux-Hamlin during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
“We found out I can read!” McGregor-Dickens says. “I missed my friends a lot.”
McGregor-Dickens also enjoyed the opportunity to visit a landfill site during her stay with her grandparents in Peterborough.
“It was very amazing because I never saw a landfill [before],” McGregor-Dickens says.
Esquimaux-Hamlin, an Aundeck Omni Kaning citizen who retired to Peterborough after about 18 years at the University of Toronto’s First Nations House, says McGregor-Dickens had been visiting during March Break, but when her school was closed due to the COVID-19 lockdown, she and her daughter decided to let McGregor-Dickens stay in Peterborough because of all of the restrictions in Toronto.
