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Our Stories, Our Strength: A Collection from the Legacy of Hope Foundation

The Legacy of Hope Foundation describes “Our Stories, Our Strength”, poignantly as “a silenced voice now speaking”. In order to hear these voices, the Legacy of Hope Foundation traveled across Canada recording the stories of residential school Survivors. Together the entire Our Stories Our Strength collection is quite powerful and moving and all of these stories; “began as a courageous whisper through pent up tears”.
 
These Our Stories, Our Strength residential school Survivor stories were recorded in various communities across Canada, between 2004 and 2008. A selection of Survivor stories from this collection have been made available here to view and to listen to through a partnership with the Legacy of Hope Foundation.

James Leon Sheldon – Lower Post Indian Residential School, Lower Post, British Columbia
Alfred Solonas – Lejac Indian Residential School, Fraser Lake, British Columbia
Elsie Paul
Walter West
Verna Miller
Lucille Mattess – Lejac Indian Residential School, Fraser Lake, British Columbia
Melvin Jack
Aggie George - Lejac Indian Residential School, Fraser Lake, British Columbia
Roy Dick, Part 1 of 2
Mary Caesar, Part 1 of 2
Basil Ambers – St. Michael's Indian Residential School, Alert Bay, British Columbia
Cecile Ketlo – Lejac and Kamloops Residential Schools, British Columbia
21 more
Beverly Albrecht – Mohawk Institute, Brantford, Ontario
Blanche Hill-Easton – Mohawk Institute, Brantford, Ontario
Charles Scribe, Part 1
Ed Bitternose – Gordon's, Muscowequan and Lebret Residential Schools, Saskatchewan
Eunice Gray
George Francis, part 1 of 2
Grant Severight, part 1 of 2
Joseph Desjarlais, part 1 of 2
Mabel Harry Fontaine, part 1 of 3
Rita Watcheston
Patricia Lewis – Shubenacadie Indian Residential School, Nova Scotia
William Hearney
Shirley Flowers
Velma Page, part 1
William McLean – Morley and Edmonton Residential Schools, Alberta
Percy Ballantyne – Birtle Residential School, Birtle, Manitoba
Rev. Mary Battaja – Carcross Residential School, Carcross, Yukon
Dennis George Greene
Peggy Shannon (Abrahams), Survivor, and Damien Abrahams, Intergenerational Survivor - St. Michael's, Alert Bay, British Columbia
Ed Marten, Survivor, with Edwin and Ryan Marten, Intergenerational Survivors - Holy Angels Residential School, Fort Chipewyan, Alberta
Sixties Scoop Survivors: Selections from the "Bi-Giwen: Truth Telling from the Sixties Scoop" Exhibition
A National Residential School Crisis Line has been set up to provide support to former students.
This 24-Hour Crisis Line can be accessed at: 1-866-925-4419.
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