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"The apology is great. It's something that relieved a lot of tension and hurt in myself," [Sam McGillivary] said Thursday. "It haunted me for a great number of years," he said of his time at Cathedral Valley.
A traumatic event for former residents, including McGillivary, was the shooting death of Blake's wife Phyllis in December 1977 by one of the boys planning an escape. The boy "got access to a gun from a gun rack in the home" and shot the woman while attempting to take the keys to the group home vehicle, according to [Barry Tuckett]'s report. Henry Blake was attending a meeting in Winnipeg at the time.[Gord Mackintosh] said the provincial government has accepted Tuckett's recommendations, including providing individualized healing plans for former residents and sufficient resources to carry them out. The minister said at least half a dozen former residents would benefit from grief counselling, "cultural healing" and other assistance.See the full content of this document
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Group-Home Residents Get Quick Apology
Residents of a former western Manitoba group home suffered emotional harm from its strict militaristic operating style -- as well as the 1977 murder of a woman several of the boys called "mom," a report...
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