Posted By Cathy Dobson, the Observer
Local News
It took two years and a lot of persistence but Sarnia's Marilyn Gray has finally been paid full compensation for the years she suffered at a native residential school.
"It's such a relief," said the 73-year-old Gray. "They said they couldn't find my papers. They didn't do anything for so long.
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Gray applied to Service Canada after Ottawa approved a compensation agreement in 2006 for residential school survivors. It promised $19,000 for the four years she spent at St. Mary's School in Spanish, Ont., far from her home at the Cape Croker reserve near Wiarton.
In December Service Canada responded with a letter that stated they could locate records for only one year of her residency, and would pay her only $10,000.
She filed a reconsideration, providing a list of nicknames and possible spellings for Akiwenzie, her maiden name. Gray even provided a list of her teachers' names from her years at the school, from 1945 to 1948.
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Twenty-five other Aamjiwnaang members applied for and received full compensation as surviving students of residential schools.
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