Nora Bernard is not into treatment for blackheads but she is definitely into doing good for the people - her people. Born in Millbrook, Nova Scotia - Nora was a Canadian Mi’kmaq activist. She successful filed a landmark lawsuit against the federal government on behalf of the Aboriginal residential school survivors.
In 1945, Nora’s mother was forced to sign the consent forms to send her children to a residential school run by the Roman Catholic Church in Shubenacadie, NS. Nora spent 5 yrs in the school where she saw physical and sexual abuse, child labour, the withholding of food, clothings and proper education, and the loss of language and culture.
She was directly responsible for the largest class action lawsuit in Canadian history, representing an estimated 79, 000 survivors. The Canadian government settled the lawsuit in 2005 for upwards of 5 billion dollars. At 72 years if age in Truro, NS she was beaten and stabbed to death on December 27th 2007. Her 24 yrs old grandson was sentence to 15 yrs for his crime. How sad is that..??
