Alberni residential school

It's early morning and 13-year-old Willie Blackwater is getting ready for the day.

He's a student at the Alberni Indian Residential School.

On this day, he tells his dorm supervisor he isn't feeling well.

Decades later, he can still remember it clearly.

All kinds of hatred came up for my dad, my grandmother, who I called Mom, our community at Kispionks.

I thought nobody wanted me anymore.

All the children are scared, and no one knows exactly where they're going until they pull up at the Alberni Indian Residential School in the middle of Vancouver Island.

Willie and his brothers are sent to different dorms.

What's the context on this one?

That's the Alberni Residential School.

That's a picture in the 1950s.

Now, this is where the incinerations happened.