The former Mohawk Institute Residential School in Brantford, Ont., will open to the public as a museum for the first time this fall — marking a major milestone in the site's history, as well as for survivors and the Woodland Cultural Centre that's worked for years to transform it.

It will open Sept. 30, on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, says Heather George, the Woodland Cultural Centre's executive director.

"What better time to reopen Mohawk Institute as this evidence of the lives, the stories of children and all of the work that our communities have done to ensure the goal of residential schools are not what our communities are – we are about language and cultural reclamation," George said.

The Woodland Cultural Centre also has a full slate of activities planned for Nat

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