CANADA
CBC News
Hundreds of people who say they suffered abuse at the hands of their teachers gathered at Winnipeg’s Indian and Metis Friendship Centre Thursday.
They call themselves day school survivors.
While they were not in the residential school system, they say the abuse they suffered was the same.
Patricia Desmoulin sold handicrafts to be able to make the trip from Pick River First Nation, Ontario to find healing.
“I did suffer when I went to day school from the teachers that we had,” she said. “Physical abuse.”
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