Earlier this week, Dr. Edmund Metatawabin, a member of the Order of Canada and the former chief of Fort Albany First Nation, travelled hundreds of kilometres from his home in Peetabeck, in Fort Albany. His destination: Ottawa, to appear beforeThis scene has repeated itself countless times. Dr. Metatawabin is a member of an ever-shrinking group of St.
Dr. Metatawabin told the committee that he entered St. Anne’s when he was six, and was there for eight years. He documented his time there in his memoir,which was a finalist for the 2014 Governor General’s Literary Award. But that wasn’t enough, apparently – he had to say more. “Genocide is not always necessarily a one-time event. It is, in the case of ‘Indians of Canada,’ an attrition process happening over an extended time,” he told the committee.
For St. Anne’s survivors, the pace of justice has been excruciatingly slow. Last October, a 97-year-old Ottawa woman became the third nun and the eighth St. Anne’s staff member to be