CANADA
Global News
By Leslie Young
Investigative Reporter Global News
Jim White has six scars – three on each shoulder – left over from his time at a residential school in the early 1950s.
He’s not sure what they are, though he remembers how he got them.
He was told to report back to the nurse the next week to have the bandage changed. “By the time the week arrived to see the nurse, the smell that came off this was just, it was horrendous. It smelled like rotten food, is what it smelled like. And it went on until these openings closed up which took about a month or two.”
He was told nothing about why he was cut as a young child, he said.
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