Non-UBC Events
November 3, 2025, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Lecture 4: November 3, 7:00-8:30 pm (Eastern), Dominion-Chalmers Centre
This is not my story, but yours: The Russ Moses residential school memoir
Description: Written in 1965, the Russ Moses residential school memoir describes the circumstances and conditions which the author encountered while attending the Mohawk Institute Indian Residential School in Brantford, Ontario, under exceptionally severe wartime and immediate post-war conditions from 1942 to 1947.
Biography: John Moses is a former director (retired) of Repatriation and Indigenous Relations at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec. He is a member of the Delaware and Upper Mohawk bands of the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory near Brantford, Ontario, and he is the son of the late Russ Moses (1932-2013), whose residential school memoir he recounts.