Newbury and the Sixties Scoop

https://glencoehistoricalsociety.ca/event/cody_groat/

December 10, 2025
🕔 Start time: 2:00 PM
📍 Location: The Archive, Glencoe, ON

Join Dr. Cody Groat as he shares a deeply personal and powerful presentation about the Sixties Scoop through the story of his late father, Bill Groat. A survivor of this dark chapter in Canadian history, Bill was a Kanyen’kehaka (Mohawk) child raised in a foster home in Newbury, Ontario, before returning to his biological parents—survivors of the Indian Residential School System—in London, Ontario. This 40-minute talk explores identity, displacement, and intergenerational trauma, woven with the long history of the Groat family and the local significance of Newbury.

Dr. Groat is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Indigenous Studies at Western University, and a citizen of the Kanyen’kehaka nation and Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve. In 2025, he received the King Charles III Coronation Medal for his work promoting Canadian heritage.

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