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City OKs res school monument St. Paul’s Indian Residential School gets $30K memorial
BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
The City of North Vancouver is putting up $10,000 as a gesture towards righting one of the most egregious wrongs in Canadian history.
Council voted unanimously Monday night to contribute the funds towards a monument dedicated to the more than 2,000 First Nations children who were taken from their families and sent to live at St. Paul’s Indian Residential
School between 1898 and 1959. The school, which stood where St.Thomas Aquinas secondary stands today, has largely been shrouded in the mists of time. Most members of council did not know of its existence until a request for support came from the Squamish Nation-based Ustlahn Social Society. While St. Paul’s students excelled in sports and music and went on to
become local business and community leaders, there have been dark and lasting consequences from the residential schooling echoing into today’s generations, said Rennie Nahanee, Squamish Nation and Ustlahn Society member. “What was not known was the effect of the boarding school on the students attending there as they later became parents themselves and were lacking in parenting
skills, family social skills, cultural knowledge and their language,” he said. Students, mainly from the Squamish band but also from the Musqueam,TsleilWaututh and Sechelt Indian Band, were forced to attend the school from the ages of four to 16, in most cases. While in the school, they were kept from their families, forced to speak English and faced physical punishment at the hands of nuns.
The monument on the STA site will depict two children in a canoe, riding toward the crest of a wave. The first sections of the wave, which starts at a high point and then dips down into a depression, represents the pre-colonial contact with First Nations and the era of having their freedom and culture stripped from them. “The wave going up on
Pot petition takes to the street BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
For the next three months, you can expect to see smiling canvassers asking for your signature on a petition that could effectively decriminalize marijuana possession in B.C. The Sensible B.C. initiative petition, headed up by marijuana activist and former West VancouverSunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country NDP candidate Dana Larsen, got its official start Monday morning. The petition calls for the B.C. Police Act to be amended to specifically direct police agencies to stop enforcing simple marijuana possession laws.This was Larsen’s way of getting around the fact that criminal See Petition page 5
BOWLED OVER Handsworth running back Alex Moon dances through danger during the annual Buchanan Bowl played Saturday at Carson Graham. The Eagles scored a 31-14 win. See page 37 for the full story. Scan this photo with the Layar app or visit nsnews.com to see more photos plus video highlights from the game. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH
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