This exhibition, the first in Canada to be developed on residential schools, uses archival photographs and documents, to tell the story of the System using a more traditional museum-style format. The content is presented on text panels and the images as framed photographs.

This exhibition spans over 125 years and contains photographs and documents from the 1880s to present day. Photographs, text panels and artifacts move the witness through the process of leaving home and arriving at school to school activities and being part of a classroom.

A section on the children who never returned home as well as on contemporary role models provides a wide range of perspectives.

Version 1.1 of this exhibition is displayed as a “hung exhibit” as you would see in any art gallery. Version 2.1 is a travel version, with content condensed and displayed in a curved wall structure with photographs gallery on a monitor.

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