Woodland Cultural centre

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One of the residential schools was located in Brantford, the school closed in the early 1970’s but it’s one of the few locations across the country that remain standing, although now it houses a centre that preserves and promotes first nations culture and heritage.

15 000 students went to the Mohawk institute residential school, it’s now called the Woodland Cultural centre. Out of 130 residential schools that operated in Canada it’s one of less than 10 still standing.

The centre’s executive director Amos Key, who was in Ottawa today referred to it as a “historic occasion” saying the report and recommendations were everything he hoped they would be.

Key says there is a huge demand when it comes to people wanting to tour the building and they are working on a campaign to restore it to a museum to what the school looked like. He says the building tells a very important story.