Premier David Eby issued a formal apology to the Sons of Freedom Doukhobors in the Provincial Legislative Assembly on Tuesday.
Eby’s apology in Victoria followed apologies from Attorney General Niki Sharma in Castlegar on Feb. 1 and in Grand Forks on Feb. 2.
In the 1950s, hundreds of children of Sons of Freedom members were taken from their families and placed into forced-education facilities including a former tuberculosis sanatorium in New Denver in part because their parents opposed government rules and refused to send them to public schools.