martha flaherty
How Canada’s Poor Record-Keeping Broke Up 4,000 Families
It took years for an Innuit girl to be returned to her family, because no records were kept of where she came from or who her family was.
How the Canadian Government's Poor Record-Keeping Broke Up 4,000 Inuit Families
In the 50s, the Canadian government shipped thousands of Inuit people infected with tuberculosis from their homes in the Arctic to sanitariums in southern Canada without explaining their whereabouts to their families. We interviewed members of the...
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