Children taken from their homes 70 years ago due largely to the religious beliefs of their parents are set to receive formal apologies from B.C.’s Attorney General Niki Sharma at private meetings in the province’s Interior this week.
Sharma is travelling to the communities of Castlegar and Grand Forks Thursday and Friday to meet with members and relatives of the Sons of Freedom Doukhobors, who were forcibly removed from their parents in the 1950s.
Many were placed in a former tuberculosis sanatorium in New Denver, B.C., about 280 kilometres east of Kelowna, between 1953 and 1959, where they have testified they received physical and pyschological
