Investigators also found the former nun who worked at the hospital. The boys had planned their escape in whispers at night, according to various interviews conducted by the OPP. The OPP contacted the former supervisor, but he claimed he could not remember the attack.
But the “coincidence” of the sequence of events, just made it all seem… creepy?
I screamed LOUD! By making stories about residential schools relatable, kids can understand in their hearts, as well as their brains. “I beat up my younger sister … We did this to get rid of our frustration.”. They’re God’s workers, they were to look after us.”.
She remembered one time, while having her first period, she resisted a nun who was rubbing her breasts and stomach before moving down between her legs.
Send it to us by email at tips[at]vancitybuzz.com, Sign up for our newsletter to get exclusive content, contests, and perks direct to you. The students started playing tug of war with him, with one group pulling at his feet and the other pulling at his neck, he told the OPP. Sometimes students would be tied to the bed, she said. The rope was taken off by ... the supervisor.”. We fight in the long grass. I was starting to panic. I have many stories, but I am going to share one that ‘scared’ me the most, when it happened. A public inquiry was held the following year and reached the same conclusion. The transcript of the interview is among thousands of pages of OPP records from a sprawling investigation into abuse at St. Anne’s obtained by CBC News. “It got to the point where older girls would beat up the younger girls,” she told the OPP.
Some were taking photos, and the others were working the cables. Residential Schools and day schools operated throughout Canada from 1840 until 1996. Sign up for the free, Indian Horse newsletter to stay up to date on the film’s progress; we’ll share information about premieres and upcoming events, the actors and producers of the film, as well as information about Residential Schools and the Reconciliation movements in Canada. We told Mr. Glen it was [redacted] that knocked. Another said he was told he had to sit in the chair if he wanted to speak to his mother.
I am no scientist… I can’t lay out the specific explanation, but obviously when air is moving, things are gonna move. The five people convicted following the OPP investigation included: Ann Wesley, a Cree nun born in Attawapiskat, who attended St. Anne’s as a child, was convicted of three counts of common assault, three counts of administering a noxious substance, and one count of assault causing bodily harm. One survivor, who was in her 50s at the time of her August 1993 interview with OPP investigators, said she remembered a staff member who targeted five girls for sexual abuse during her time at St. Anne’s, which lasted from 1951 to 1955. Now, if I had been in any other situation, hearing a voice and footsteps would not have caused me to even bat an eye. “We looked forward to it,” said the residential school survivor, whose name is redacted in the OPP transcript. We were supposed to be sleeping.
The rest live at home in the village.
To begin, click "accept challenge" below! Then one of the students told the others to throw the rope attached to his neck over a pipe running across the ceiling. “The whole affair is regrettable and the parents’ indignation is understandable,” an RCMP constable said in a dispatch to superiors on June 27, 1941.
Sometimes they put wax on the floors so they are shiny and then they look very nice. (From We Live at School, Grades 3 and 4 at St. Anne’s Indian Residential School, March 1972). Residential Schools are sometimes called a ‘sad chapter of Canada’s history.’ I understand why that metaphor is used, but it sometimes makes me feel as though Canada thinks we have moved on from these stories or that these stories are something we can simply turn the page on.
(We had a lot of personal experiences that night, but this by far was the scariest, a word I rarely use when it comes to the paranormal or unknown.). Ontario Provincial Police files obtained by CBC News reveal the history of abuse at the notorious residential school that built its own electric chair. Too many in Canada today still do not know the truth of what the Canadian Government has done to try to assimilate Indigenous people into Canadian culture. Listening to stories from Survivors of Residential Schools can be difficult and weigh down on you.