The following is an excerpt from the April 2015 Halifax Magazine essay called “Time for a Revolution,” by Chris Benjamin. Once upon a time the world waited breathlessly for someone to perfect the horseless carriage. But soon the gadgetry proved less significant than the infrastructure around it. A German named Benz built what we now […]
Thursday, October 15 at 4:30 pm, Saint Mary’s University presents Chris Benjamin, journalist and author of Indian School Road: Legacies of the Shubenacadie Residential School. Where? At the Loyola Academic Complex (5865 Gorsebrook Avenue) – Room 175. Everyone welcome! “…a gut-wrenching and much-needed historical work…I’d like to see Indian School Road as mandatory reading in […]
Public Talk by Chris Benjamin author of Indian School Road: Legacies of the Shubenacadie Residential School Winner of the 2013 Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for Social Justice writing When: Wednesday, 13 October 2015, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Where: Nova Scotia Community College Port Hawkesbury Campus Theatre 226 Reeves St. Port Hawkesbury “This […]
To help Mount Saint Vincent University commemorate Mi’kmaq History Month (October), award-winning author Chris Benjamin will be speaking about his book, Indian School Road: Legacies of the Shubenacadie Residential School (Nimbus, 2014). October 7 at 12:00–13:30 Mount Saint Vincent University (166 Bedford Highway, Halifax) in Seton Building, Auditorium D
The Indian School Road Fall 2015 University Book Tour continues with two events next week! Tuesday, Sept 29, 4:30 – 6:30 pm, at Dalhousie University’s McCain Arts & Social Sciences Building (6135 University Avenue), Room 2012, in Halifax, Chris Benjamin will give a talk on the Shubenacadie Residential School based on his book, Indian School […]
Two upcoming events on the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School: Friday, Sept 18, 12:00 noon until 2:20 pm, at the University of Prince Edward Island Main Faculty Lounge in Charlottetown. Chris Benjamin will give a talk on the Shubenacadie Residential School based on his book, Indian School Road. and Saturday, Sept 19, 1:00 pm until 2:00 […]
Date: Wednesday, Aug 26 Time: 7:00 pm Location: Writer’s Federation of Nova Scotia offices, 1113 Marginal Road, Halifax Perks: COFFEE and snacks Admission: FREE Prince Edward Island-based author Jeff Bursey will be in Halifax launching his new novel, Mirrors on which dust has fallen. Joining him will be poet and short story writer Carole Langille, […]
I had the great honour to present at an event honouring survivors from the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School this month at the University of New Brunswick. CBC did a piece on the event:
Here’s a video of a talk by Chris Benjamin on the long road from getting bad advice from a guidance counsellor, through the St. Lucian rainforest, around Ghana and to becoming a journalist and author, most recently researching and writing Indian School Road:
Last week I saw on my Facebook wall that it was Colette Urban’s birthday. I wrote about Colette’s work, mostly in Newfoundland, as an inspiring, environmentally conscious artist, teacher, small-scale farmer and host of eco-tourists for my book, Eco-Innovators. But she wasn’t much of a Facebook user, so I was surprised, and very saddened, to […]
