Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC)

Concerted national action overdue for all the children who never came home from residential schools

The discovery of an unmarked mass burial site at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School highlights the urgent need for a concerted national response on behalf of all the children who were stolen from their families and who never returned home.

Jun 2, 2021

Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC). Credit: Paul Joseph/UBC

Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond joins UBC as head of residential school centre and professor of law

Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, a renowned Indigenous Canadian judge, lawyer and advocate for children and Indigenous restorative justice, has joined UBC as the inaugural director of the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC) and as a professor with the Peter A. Allard School of Law.

Apr 26, 2018