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Survivor shares stories from church-run residential school St. Eugene’s in B.C.
‘All I want to do is let the truth be known, some of the horrors that happened,’ says Jack Kruger.
Athena Bonneau, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter June 11, 2021
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