NEW BOOK: Dead Wrong: How Canada Got the Residential School Story So Wrong
A new book documents how the residential schools "unmarked graves" narrative spread, hardened into orthodoxy inside media and government, and how it continues to warp our debates in Canada to this day
Dead Wrong is a follow-up to Grave Error, published by True North in late 2023. Grave Error instantly became a best-seller because it debunked the Kamloops Narrative about “unmarked graves” and “missing children” at Indian Residential Schools.
Why is another book needed? Simply because the struggle for accurate information continues. Very few of those who spread unsubstantiated rumours about “discoveries” of “unmarked graves” holding the remains of “missing children” at Kamloops and other Indian Residential Schools have admitted their errors.
Dead Wrong gives the straight story about episodes involving the Kamloops Narrative, such as:
The shocking unwillingness of the New York Times to retract its headline about “mass graves” at Kamloops.
The attempt of the city council at Quesnel, BC, to drive the mayor from office because his wife gave away ten copies of Grave Error.
The firing of high school teacher Jim McMurtry because he told students the truth—that most students who died at residential schools succumbed to TB.
The so-called documentary Sugarcane, which was nominated for an Oscar even though it was riddled with errors about St. Joseph’s Residential School at Williams Lake, BC.
The attempt of the Law Society of BC to entrench the Kamloops Narrative in its educational materials, even though the falsehoods were pointed out by member Jim Keller.
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All this and much more is contained in Dead Wrong, which picks up where Grave Error left off. If you liked Grave Error, you’ll love Dead Wrong.
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Thanks to True North and the contributors to this book. The actual truth needs to continue to get out to the public if there is going to be any chance of getting the Indian Industry under control.
Now if we could only get the politicians interested in learning the truth on the other side of the required narrative.
Truth always hurts less than living in the dark.
People cling to the illusion of certainty the way a frightened child clings to a blanket—tight, desperate, unwilling to let go long enough to see what’s real. They build their lives on assumptions, mistaking them for foundations, feeding their egos with stories that feel good for the moment but collapse under the weight of clarity.
It’s like a woman painting her face each morning, not to enhance beauty but to hide it—masquerading behind a wall of deceit. But when the curtain is pulled back, when the mask cracks, the truth stands there waiting. Not ugly. Not shameful. Just real.
And reality, when finally faced, is the gentlest thing in the world.
The sky always forgives.
When truth is set free, there is always room to fly.