Swim successful despite failed bid to cross Lake Ontario
Marites N. Sison
August 11, 2010
Thie Convery swims with Jeff Caldwell in the kayak beside her. Photo: Frances Manias After more than nine hours in the water, high waves ended
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Thie Convery swims with Jeff Caldwell in the kayak beside her. Photo: Frances Manias After more than nine hours in the water, high waves ended
“I think we’re all called to do something for others,” says Thie Convery of St. James Church in Dundas, Ont., who will swim Lake Ontario
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They were known by their numbers at residential schools and to this day, Evelyn Omand, now in her 60s, still remembers hers: 38, 39, 43, and 45. She had gone to four different residential schools.
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“I’m no longer ashamed of who I am. I’m a strong Anishnabe woman and I’m a minister of the Christian faith.”
There is an air of anticipation, of history waiting to happen here, as Indian residential school survivors and their families, and representatives of churches and government began arriving in Winnipeg June 15 for the first national event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada.
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