EIPS schools honour residential school survivors on Candle Day

EIPS schools honour residential school survivors on Candle Day

Candle Day

Access denied: The fight to get inside a database of historic residential school records

Students at Alberni Residential School in Port Alberni, B.C., pose for a photo in the 1930s. Researchers trying to identify children who died at the school have been fighting for access to a database that would allow them to search for records about individual children. (British Columbia Archives). When Amber Kostuchenko started working with a B.C First Nation to identify children who didn’t survive their residential school experience, she knew …