My Shameful Family Connection to Canada's Residential Schools

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When my great-grandfather Walter Parker was 38 years old, he volunteered to fight in World War I. On April 9, 1917, a month after he arrived in Europe, he participated in the Battle of Vimy Ridge and he died. He left behind three daughters. One of them was three years old and she became my grandmother, but I never kn…