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Students at Port Elgin Regional School shared their knowledge of Canada’s residential school legacy as part of an assembly ahead the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
Children can handle ‘dark topics’ like the residential school system, says teacher
Erica Butler · CBC News
· Posted: Sep 30, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 28 minutes ago
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Grade 5 Port Elgin Regional School student Eilidh Tessier said learning about Canada’s residential school system changed her. (Pierre Fournier/CBC)
Learning about Canada’s residential schools was more than a history lesson for Eilidh Tessier, a Grade 5 student at Port Elgin Regional School.
“It changed me,” said Tessier, who participated in her school’s assembly to mark Orange Shirt Day this year by reading a personal reflection.
At her old school, Tessier said she didn’t learn about Canada’s residential school system, which sought to assimilate an estimated 150,000 Indigenous children over its long history, leaving approximately 6,000 dead and thousands of families traumatized.
At Port Elgin Regional School, Tessier has been learning about that legacy and the movements that have grown in response to it, like Orange Shirt Day,
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