More than seven decades after what British Columbia acknowledges were historic injustices, the government will on Thursday formally apologize for the policies that shattered the Doukhobor community and left a legacy of hurt.
Few spoke English, but Russian was banned. Some experienced mental, physical and sexual abuse degradations that mirrored the experience of the 150,000 Indigenous children forcibly converted to Christianity, given new names, and prohibited from speaking their native languages in government and church-run residential schools.
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