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September 30, 2024


Residential school monument finds home at national history museum

Children’s unsmiling faces reflect dark chapter that ‘should never have happened’ CBC Indigenous: Stanley C. Hunt says it’s hard to describe how he felt in May 2021 when he heard around 200 potential burial sites had been found at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. But the product of the B.C. artist’s grief is now on display in...

September 29, 2024


B.C. woodcarver Stanley C. Hunt channels grief into monument honouring children who died at residential schools

Globe and Mail: The artist Stanley C. Hunt was at his studio in Fort Rupert, B.C., immersed in his work of woodcarving, when he first heard the news on the radio. It was May, 2021, and newscasters were announcing the discovery of what First Nations leaders described as potential unmarked graves at the site of...

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