by Andrew Rankin, Reprinted with permission of the localxpress.ca

Sister Dorothy Moore of Membertou is celebrating her 60th anniversary as a member of the Sisters of Saint Martha of Antigonish.

Sister Dorothy Moore of Membertou is celebrating her 60th anniversary as a member of the Sisters of Saint Martha of Antigonish.

Sister Dorothy Moore had good reason to turn her back on the Catholic Church. As a nine-year-old girl, she was displaced from her family in Membertou and forced to suffer two years worth of indignities at Shubenacadie Indian Residential School.

As a nine-year-old girl, she was displaced from her family in Membertou and forced to suffer two years worth of indignities at Shubenacadie Indian Residential School. To the Roman Catholic nuns charged with running the institution, Moore was seen as a mere number – No. 44, to be precise. She was nicknamed Jackass by one of her teachers and was once ordered to draw a donkey on the cl ...

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