BCHF News Memoir recalls childhood in New Denver residential school

Memoir recalls childhood in New Denver residential school

A woman who spent four and a half years as a child at the New Denver residential school for Sons of Freedom Doukhobor children has published a memoir. Elizabeth Hlookoff was taken from her family in Grand Forks by the BC government in 1954 at age seven because they were not sending her to school.

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