Updated: B.C. attorney general apologizes to Doukhobors, forcibly taken from parents in 1950s.
The apology came with a promise of $10 million for community programs and education aimed at providing 'lasting recognition of historical wrongs'
Elizabeth Hlookoff says she got teary as she watched British Columbia’s attorney general apologize for what provincial authorities did to her family seven decades ago.
Until that moment, she thought she had healed from the experience of being taken from her parents, who were members of the Sons of Freedom Doukhobor religious group, and sent to live in a former tuberculosis sanatorium.
She was among hundreds of children forcibly removed from their homes in the 1950s, in part because their parents opposed government rules and refused to send them to public schools.
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