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October 6, 2024
When they died, they were buried without a marker. Inside the quest to restore dignity to some of Ontario’s forgotten
Communities from Toronto to New York, and now Ingersoll, are wrestling with how to properly acknowledge and preserve these graveyards, commonly known as Potter’s Fields. Toronto Star: When Cody Groat was a kid, he’d ride his bike around a seemingly empty swath of ground in the local cemetery. Townsfolk, too, out for a stroll, would...
September 9, 2024
Woodland Cultural Centre Receives Largest Single Non-Governmental Donation for the Mohawk Institute from the Barry and Laurie Green Family Trust
NationTalk: (Brantford/Six Nations, ON) – The Woodland Cultural Centre is pleased to announce that the Barry and Laurie Green Family Trust has awarded a grant of $450,000 toward the production of essential finishing elements required to establish the Mohawk Institute as a pinnacle, best in class, nationally significant heritage museum and site of conscience that...
March 22, 2024
Commission releases interim report into unmarked graves at residential schools
The interim report asks for funding for searches at residential school to be continued until past 2025. Canada announced millions of dollars to assist the search for unmarked graves, and healing Photo: APTN. This article contains details about residential schools. The Indian Residential Schools Crisis Line (1-866-925-4419) is available 24 hours a day for survivors...