We need the Canadian Museum on Residential Schools now

An effective museum is costly, but forgetting what Canada has done to Indigenous children would be morally bankrupt, writes Rose LeMay.

Two Métis children with an Inuit child, pictured at the All Saints Residential School, Shingle Point, Yukon, 1930. A museum and memorial on residential schools would ensure that Canada never forgets what it did to Indigenous children from coast to coast to coast, writes Rose LeMay. Photograph courtesy of Library and Archives Canada

Opinion

BY ROSE LEMAY

July 4, 2022

OTTAWA—July 1 is the 75th anniversary of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. The Auschwitz camp was started in 1940 near Oswiecim in Poland and held up to 20,000 prisoners. The Birkenau camp was added on in 1941 to increase capacity with up to 90,000 prisoners. Numerous sub-cam...

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