
No Time to Say Goodbye: Children's Stories of Kuper Island Residential School
A Fiction, Boarding School, Young Adult book. This is a collection of 5 stories of children taken to the Kuper Island residential school from the Chemainus area....
No Time to Say Goodbye is a fictional account of five children sent to aboriginal boarding school, based on the recollections of a number of Tsartlip First Nations people. These unforgettable children are taken by government agents from Tsartlip Day School to live at Kuper Island Residential School. The five are isolated on the small island and life becomes regimented by the strict school routine. They experience the pain of homesickness and confusion while trying to adjust to a world completely different from their own. Their lives are no longer organized by fishing, hunting and family, but by bells, line-ups and chores. In spite of the harsh realities of the...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 172 pages
- ISBN: 9781550391213 / 1550391216
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Helps people to understand the horrendous things that children went through in the residential schools. From loss of family and culture to loss of innocence. Very sad story. This book is well written and brings home the horror that the children had to endure in the Kuper Island Residential School This is a collection of 5 stories of children taken to the Kuper Island residential school from the Chemainus area. They were just collected from their day school and taken one day, hence the title of no time to say goodbye. While fictional children, the stories are based on true events. One story deals with sexual abuse and another...