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On September 18, 2013 the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada arrived in Vancouver, British Columbia, a date that also marked the opening of a new collaborative exhibition at the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology (MOA) entitled Speaking to Memory: Images and Voices from St. Michael’s Residential School.
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Gibbons, E. (2015). Museums and Marginalized Historical Narratives. In: Anderson, D., Cosson, A.d., McIntosh, L. (eds) Research Informing the Practice of Museum Educators. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-238-7_9
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