How people who aren’t Indigenous can honour Truth and Reconciliation day – CBC
Sep 27, 2024
Bourgeois said mending relations in Canada begins with knowing what went on in residential schools
When Robyn Bourgeois sees her three children, aged seven to 12, she sometimes thinks about what her grandfather was doing at that age at a residential school in Alberta.
When he was that age, at the school, she says, he dug graves.
“I think about him being that age and digging graves for other kids like him,” she says, “and also wondering, ‘OK, if this is happening to them, could this happen to me?'”
