My grandmother attended St. Michael’s Residential School in Duck Lake, Sask. She grew up in Toronto but spent summers with her mother’s family in Raith, a rural Indigenous community northwest of Thunder Bay, Ont. She is Polish-Canadian on her father’s side and Anishinaabe through her mother, whose family comes from the Fort William First Nation, just outside of Thunder Bay. “Two hundred and fifteen graves, bodies of little children,” she says about the discovery at the former Kamloops Residential School in British Columbia. “Being in Thunder Bay, being in community, it’s very helpful for me as I write,” she says.

Source: CBC News December 14, 2021 14:30 UTC