Mark DeWolf

Two Schools

May 28, 2025, 10:08 am

Quality of the video is due to its being shot with an 8mm home movie camera. The video is about 26 minutes long, but it sheds a different light on the residential schools than that cast by the TRC’s Summary Report and subsequent reports, claims and accusations. If the video will not play, go to the YouTube video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6rnUcyNorA

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Mark DeWolf

As the eldest son of an Indian Residential School Principal, Mark DeWolf spent ten of his childhood years on the Blood Reserve / Kainai First Nation in southern Alberta during the 1950 and early 60s, attending classes with the students of St. Paul’s Anglican Indian Residential School for six of those years. A teacher of secondary school English for more then 35 years, as well as a writer and performer of satirical sketches on CBC Radio, he is now retired and occupies himself as a writer, a musician, an English tutor to recent immigrants, and a volunteer at a Halifax seniors’ drop-in centre. Mark takes an active interest in all Indigenous issues and supports Indigenous organizations that promote education and the building of relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians.

Topics in this post: former staff testimony, Indian Residential Schools, La Tuque IRS, St. Paul's Anglican IRS, student life, Summary Report, Truth and Reconciliation Commission

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