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Our Stories…Our Strength
   

One of the Legacy of Hope Foundation’s biggest projects to date has been Our Stories… Our Strength, a national education project whose aim is to collect, preserve and share the stories of Residential School Survivors.   With funding from INAC and Health Canada, the LHF has been working with Aboriginal communities and organizations from across Canada since 2006 to organize gatherings of Residential School Survivors.   These gatherings have provided a forum for Survivors and their families to come together to share their experience with others, to learn about counselling services and healing programs available to them, to obtain information about issues related to residential schools, and most importantly, to have their residential school experiences recorded and preserved.   These experiences were documented primarily in one-on-one interviews with the Legacy of Hope Foundation and are part of the growing collection of stories that will be a part of a publicly available archive on residential schools.

 

This project has resulted in a collection of Survivor stories in both video and audio format that represents First Nations, Métis, and Inuit experiences of residential schools from coast to coast to coast.   This collection is the largest of its kind in Canada to date.
 
Our first northern Storytelling Gathering took place in Inuvik, NT on July 10 - 14, 2006 . There has been many to follow this including,  Storytelling Gatherings in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Brantford, Ontario, and High Prairie, Alberta. 
 
 
If you have had your story recorded by the LHF and you would like to recieve a copy of the transcript and/or video, please send us a completed REQUEST FORM
 
 
Dates & Locations of LHF Storytelling Gatherings 
British Columbia
Vancouver                               February 19-21, 2006
Prince George                        March 10-12, 2007
Nanaimo                                 March 4-5, 2008
 
Alberta
High Prairie                            September 15-17, 2006
Cardston                                 February 2-4, 2007
Calgary                                    June 15-17, 2007
Fort Chipeywan                      August 3-7, 2007
 
Saskatchewan
Regina                                     September 25-27, 2007
Nipawin                                   February 25-26, 2008
Fort Qu’Appelle                      March 18-19, 2008
 
Manitoba
Opaskwayak                           March 13-15, 2007
Winnipeg                                 April 30 - May 2, 2007
Winnipeg                                 March 25-27, 2008
 
Newfoundland & Labrador
Hopedale, Labrador              September 30-October 2, 2008
 
Nova Scotia
Halifax , NS                              December 5-7, 2006
 
Ontario
Sault Ste. Marie                     August 4-6, 2006
Brantford                                 November 17-18, 2006
Quebec
Lac Decelles                         June 1-3, 2007
 
Yukon
Whitehorse                             March 23-25, 2007
Whitehorse                             October 15-18, 2007
 
Northwest Territories
Inuvik , NWT                             July 10-14, 2006
 
 
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