PHOTO PATRICK SANFAÇON, THE PRESS
January
Passers-by want to honor the life of Raphaël André, who died in tragic conditions, frozen, while Quebec lives under a curfew.
PHOTO OLIVIER JEAN, THE PRESS
June
Jeanette Simeon was torn from her family at the end of the 1950s to be sent to the establishment of Fort George, in Nord-du-Québec. Hundreds of kilometers from Mashteuiatsh, where she lived. Today she seeks to find the missing pieces of the story of her life.
PHOTO ROBERT SKINNER, THE PRESS
June
Johnny Wylde is seated on what remains of the steps of the main entrance to the Saint-Marc-de-Figuery boarding school, in Abitibi, which he attended. He now leads a group of residential school survivors.
PHOTO OLIVIER JEAN, THE PRESS
June
The recent discovery of the remains of 215 Aboriginal children on the site of a former residential school in Kamloops reopens deep wounds in the community of Mashteuiatsh, in Lac-Saint-Jean.
PHOTO PATRICK SANFAÇON, THE PRESS
June
Last day of the coroner’s inquest into the death of Joyce Echaquan. Relatives of the family and citizens supporting them walked through the streets of downtown Trois-Rivières.
PHOTO OLIVIER JEAN, THE PRESS
August
Marguerite, Johanne and Marceline Dubé hold small baby carriers in memory of their sister Line, but also of a second baby in their family, who would have been reported dead at birth, in 1959. For these women of Manawan, it this is the quest of a lifetime.
PHOTO PATRICK SANFAÇON, THE PRESS
September
A year after Joyce Echaquan’s death at Joliette hospital, her husband, Carol Dubé, pays an emotional tribute to his late wife.
PHOTO ROBERT SKINNER, THE PRESS
September
On the occasion of the first National Truth and Reconciliation Day, a man prayed in front of Saint-François-Xavier Church in Kahnawake.
PHOTO MARCO CAMPANOZZI, THE PRESS
September
A crowd gathered to march to mark the first National Truth and Reconciliation Day in Montreal.
PHOTO MARCO CAMPANOZZI, THE PRESS
September
A young girl participates in the march for reconciliation, organized by the Native Women’s Home of Montreal and the Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador.
HUGO-SÉBASTIEN AUBERT PHOTO, THE PRESS
November
Gathering in memory of Elisapie Pootoogook, a homeless Inuit woman found dead on a construction site in Montreal. A few dozen people were present in Cabot Square, including relatives of the deceased.
PHOTO MARCO CAMPANOZZI, THE PRESS
December
The Premier of Quebec, François Legault, addresses the Great Economic Circle of Indigenous Peoples and Quebec.