Jan 11, 2026
By Lyssa Martin, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Editor’s note: The Wren uses quotation marks around the word “school” because the Truth and Reconciliation Commission found residential “schools” were “an education system in name only for much of its existence.” The Indian Residential School Survivors Society crisis line is available any time at 1-800-721-0066.
A new healing centre now under construction at Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Nation aims to offer residential “school” survivors and their descendants a place of safety and care.