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There are several tales from Canada
that I am not qualified to tell.

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And rather than tell them myself, I'm asking
you to go and listen to some other people.

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There's no adverts on this video,
there's no comments, because

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I would like to give some time to
other people to speak.

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So you could start by looking
into the residential schools,

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a whole generation
ripped from their families,

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and a part of Canada's history that
very few outside the country know about.

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That is still in living memory,

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I have met folks in this country
while I've been travelling around

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who've just casually mentioned in conversation
that they were taken to one of the schools.

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Or you could look more into the history of Giant Mine,
and how the prospectors just saw empty land

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and ignored the people who already lived there.

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I really wanted to talk to the local
First Nations folks in Yellowknife about that,

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but the timing didn't work out.

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One of the disadvantages of travelling fast
is that sometimes I have to miss things.

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There are a couple of technical stories
here in Vancouver

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that haven't worked out
for that reason, too.

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Despite what some terrible
high school teachers might think,

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history is not a dry collection of facts.

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Historians have to interpret,
they have to analyse,

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and they inevitably bring their own
biases and perspectives into it.

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And I am not a historian.

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So take a moment,
look at the links on screen,

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or if you prefer to research by
reading, pull down the description.

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It is time for me to let some
other people have a say.