Vancouver Catholic school students call on religious order to apologize for its role in residential schools

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Hundreds of students affiliated with an all-girls Vancouver Catholic school are calling for an apology from the religious order that established their institution for its role in past atrocities committed against children in Canadian residential schools.

Little Flower Academy (LFA) was established in 1927 by the Sisters of St. Ann, an order of Roman Catholic nuns founded in Quebec in 1850. The same religious order also staffed residential schools where physical and sexual

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