Our Healing Journey 1/2 - Chippewas of the Thames First Nation

Our Healing Journey is a unique and profound video about the intergenerational impacts of residential schools on the lives of First Nations peoples. Ten residential school survivors from the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation, along with other family members and healers, share their first-hand experiences in four of these schools. Mount Elgin Industrial Institute Dates of operation: 1851–1862, 1867–1946 Operated by the Wesleyan Methodist Society, and after 1925, by the United Church of Canada’s Home Board of Missions. Location: On what is now the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation No. 42, in Muncey, 20 miles southwest of London, Ontario. The land occupied by the institute also bordered on the reserve of the Oneida Nation of the Thames, from which it leased several hundred acres of pasture land. Mount Elgin was also known as the Muncey Institute. Click here to see a timeline of Mount Elgin Industrial Institute. https://thechildrenremembered.ca/wp-c...