Architectural Reconciliation
In June 2008, Prime Minister Stephen Harper stood before Parliament to make a formal apology on behalf of the federal government to survivors of Indian residential schools. In his response, Phil Fontaine, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, stated: ?Emboldened by this spectacle of history, it is possible to end our racial nightmare together. The memories of residential schools sometimes cut like merciless knives at our souls. This day will help us to put that pain behind us.?
This formal apology gave impetus to the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), established earlier that month, which began to gather testimony from residential school survivors in a series of private and public meetings held across the country. Many of the revelations that emerged from these meetings were both new and shocking to non-Indigenous Canadians, confirming the critical gaps that persisted throughout the country?s public education system. The Indian Residential Schools History and Dialogue Centre sits near to the university?s clock tower and Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, the repository for the university?s archives.
Then, in the fall of 2013, a visit by the TRC to the University of British Columbia prompted an announcement by UBC President Stephen Toope: ?Post-secondary institutes must play the particular role of furthering a deeper understanding through research and an advanced level of intercultural discourse,? he proclaimed. ?Through ongoing education, Can...
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