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LETTER: Article on girl from Garden River thoughtfully written

Reader says she did not appreciate her residence sisters who were aboriginal until years later when she grew up
Niagara-on-the-Lake Local Staff
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Niagara-on-the-Lake Local received the following letter to the editor from reader Louise Marie Lamarche in response to our article, Finding Emma, a residential school victim who never came home.

Thank you for the thoughtfully written article on Emma, the little girl from Garden River.

It is with gratitude that I am writing to you today as I am a descendant of the Grey Owl.

My ancestor Jean de Bricot married into Grey Owl’s family.

I, too, lived at St. Joseph’s but in North Bay, Ont., and did not appreciate my residence “sisters” who were aboriginal until years later when I grew up.

With kind regards,

Louise Marie Lamarche, Welland