Twenty years after Philomena Fraser collected residential school stories for Amongst God’s Own, the Enduring Legacy of St. Mary’s Mission, she was able to revisit her work and find additional stories for the book’s republishing as St. Mary’s: The Legacy of an Indian Residential School. (St. Mary’s: The Legacy of an Indian Residential School.)

20 years ago, lines of people came to tell their stories for B.C. residential school book

“People had never divulged what happened to them” at St. Mary’s Indian Residential School, chronicler Philomena Fraser says in an interview with The B.C. Catholic. “They had kept it secret, and I learned a lot.” Twenty years after collecting stories for a history of the Mission residential school entitled Amongst God’s Own, the Enduring Legacy of...

Pages from the reprinted history of St. Mary’s Indian Residential School show Indigenous children at the school in Mission and celebrating their First Communion. The 2002 book by B.C. author Terry Glavin has been republished and will be distributed to churches and schools by the Archdiocese of Vancouver. (St. Mary’s: The Legacy of an Indian Residential School)

Acclaimed residential school history gets a new lease on life

In the story of residential schools, “Catholics are victims too,” says author Terry Glavin. “The people who suffered in residential schools were Catholics.” Glavin spoke those words during an interview about the republishing of his 2002 book St. Mary’s: The Legacy of an Indian Residential School, which recounts the history of the former St. Mary’s Residential School...

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