This is from my introduction to Indian School Road: Legacies of the Shubenacadie Residential School, regarding my thought process on why I felt compelled to write a very difficult book: Here is what I found first: a recurring nightmare. Me wandering the black and white halls of the old building, as seen only in photographs, […]
Indian School Road: Legacies of the Shubenacadie Residential School has been been included on the Reading Nova Scotia: 150 Books of Influence list, a list of books deemed influential and culturally relevant by Nova Scotia’s readers, librarians, and publishers. Read the full list here.
Originally published in Coastlands: The Maritimes Policy Review, in December 2007, on pages 26-27. By Chris Benjamin In August I moved back to Halifax after an eight-year hiatus in Toronto. I was surprised to find that not much has changed. The north end is gentrifying somewhat and I see a few new buildings going in, but, by and […]
