M’Chigeeng First Nation citizen receives Quilts for Survivors package – Anishinabek News
February 25, 2022
GORE BAY – A M’Chigeeng First Nation senior is ecstatic with a recent package that arrived in the mail for her.
Helen Crawford, who is 85 and a resident at the Manitoulin Lodge in Gore Bay, is one of the more than 900 recipients thus far of a quilt, courtesy of the Quilts for Survivors group.
The group was started last year by Timmins resident Vanessa Grenier, a Missanabie Cree First Nation member. She was looking to launch a project following news which broke in 2021 that several unmarked children’s graves were being located at former Indian Residential School sites across the country.
Grenier decided to start making quilts for Indian Residential School Survivors. She started a Facebook group looking for others to help make quilts.
