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As a child in the Sons of Freedom community in the 1950s, he was forced into a residential school as a culture war ragedIt has taken more than a decade to bring myself to read my late grandfather’s account of being torn from his family and imprisoned in a Canadian residential school in the 1950s. And I’ve never felt this kind of heartache.At just eight years old, and after two years in hiding, my grandfather – Peter Savinkoff – was one of more than 200 children violently seized by police in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Authorities were struggling to assimilate and subdue a misunderstood group of Russian immigrants known as the Sons of Freedom Doukhobors, who refused to send their children to state schools on the basis of their faith, and paid the price. Continue reading...