Students, instructors and First Nations elders taking part in a unique program at Vancouver’s Langara College are marking its success through the publication of a set of memoirs that chronicle one of the darkest chapters of Canadian history.
The memoir of Squamish First Nation Elder Sam George, 79, tells the story of his life growing up on a reserve in North Vancouver and how the abuse and neglect he suffered at St. Paul’s Indian Residential School resulted in addiction, violence and incarceration.
“To get it out there emotionally and say, ‘Yeah this happened, you know I don’t have to live in that pain anymore,'” he said. “Getting it out helped me to look at it,
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