A fund for projects for healing, language and cultural revitalization and commemoration for day school survivors and their families is now accepting applications.

The McLean Legacy Fund is named after Garry McLean, a Manitoba-based advocate for Federal Indian Day School survivors, who was the lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against the Government of Canada. McLean died from cancer in 2019 at the age of 67, just before a final settlement agreement was reached.

Like residential schools, Federal Indian Day Schools were designed to assimilate Indigenous children while eradicating Indigenous languages and cultures. There were 699 Federal Indian Day Schools across Canada including one in Lake Manitoba First Nation, the Dog Creek Day School, which Garry McLean attended. About 200,000

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