Hosted by the faculty of Arts and humanities & the Faculty of education
Soup & Bannock lunch & learn
Unboxing Our History
The story of Cimoca’s Wahuksgamalayou (Charile Amos) who hears about the gospel while in what we now know as Victoria while down there trading his furs. Upon hearing the gospel, he proclaims he is now a Christian, as did a number of the Indigenous people who were in and around Victoria. He and a few Tsimpshian catechists (under the watchful eye of the well known Methodist missionary Thomas Crosby) cleared a path for the Methodist Church to establish a day school and two residential schools at Cimoca. This is a story of how residential schools came to be established at Cimoca (1893-1907)
Gya-yu-stees Joe Starr is a member of the Haisla Nation at Cimoca, aka Kitamaat, BC. He is a fourth generation in his family to attend a residential school operated by the Methodist (United Church), He holds a BEd from UBC, BA from VIU and MEDL from VIU.
Tuesday January 7, 2024 11:30 am - 1:00pm Shq’apthut BLD 170
Soup served at 11:30 am Presentation from 12:00 - 12:50 pm
