(Kelowna) Canadiens goalie Carey Price says more people need to know about the history of residential schools.
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The British Columbian has already spoken with his grandmother about her residential school experience, where she faced “social injustices”.
Speaking to 680 News, the star custodian believes few Canadians know what residential schools were.
Lynda Price, Carey’s mother, is Chief of the Ulkatcho First Nation in northern British Columbia. He says sharing stories about residential school experiences makes her emotional.
He adds that residential schools had a “cumulative effect” on generations of Aboriginal people.
Ottawa has pledged to further support the identification and investigation of burial sites near former residential schools (after allocating $ 27 million for them in 2019), following the discovery of anonymous graves in several provinces.
“This part of our history in Canada has not been covered very well,” said Price, from Kelowna.
“We have to do a better job in the future to recognize that it’s part of our history and that it’s just not right. ”
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