The lives of three boys who ran away from the Stringer Hall residential school in Inuvik, N.W.T., in 1972 were honoured at a ceremony in Inuvik on June 6, 2019. Bernard Andreason, Dennis Dick and Lawrence Jack Elanik were no older than 13-years-old when they set out on foot to return home to the neighbouring community of Tuktoyaktuk, a journey that spanned two weeks. Andreason managed to make it home, but his two friends died along the way. During the ceremony, Elders and family members of the two boys prayed over Andreason, centre, who turned 58 that August.
Aaron Hemens 