Truth and reconciliation holiday a chance to untangle unexamined family ties

These revelations of systemic Indigenous abuse actually caused me, for the first time, to further research my own familial roots.

Pupils of Mohawk Institute are pictured in Brantford, Ont., in September 1934. Scott Taylor writes that he now knows that under the terms of the 1885 Indian Act, it would have been mandatory for his grandmother Pauline to attend the Mohawk Residential Institute at Brantford until the age of 16. Photograph courtesy of Library and Archives Canada

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

September 29, 2021

OTTAWA—The current sense of national shame began on May 28 with the media reports of some 200 unmarked graves discovered on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia. The majority of those bodies are believed to be those of Indigenous students attending the...

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