CANADA
Southern Gazette
Daniel MacEachern
Published on May 10, 2016
A residential school survivor fought back tears Tuesday morning after news broke about a $50-million settlement for residential school survivors.
“I’m glad it’s over,” said Rex Holwell of Labrador on Tuesday morning.
Holwell, 65, testified in Supreme Court last fall that he was punished for bedwetting at the Northwest River residential school by being locked in the attic at night without lights or a washroom.
Holwell counts himself lucky to be one of the survivors still around to see a deal reached.
“It’s good there’s a settlement, but there’s a lot of us now that are gone,” said Holwell. “Where this trial has been on the go now for almost 10 years, a lot of us have passed on.”
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