April 23 – Newbury and the Sixties Scoop

Newbury and the Sixties Scoop with Dr. Groat  at the Glencoe Library, 123 McKellar Street, Glencoe.

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.

Dr. Groat is the author of Always a Part of the Land: the Federal Commemoration of Indigenous Histories, available for pre-order here: https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/always-a-part-of-the-land-the-federal-commemoration-of-indigenous-histories/9780228027775.html

Check out Dr. Groat commenting on the return of items from the Vatican:  https://youtu.be/MBx30UPx2jM?si=yb779M12tfELPxil.     He talks with APTN’s Creeson Agecoutay about the Indigenous artifacts coming into Canada from the Vatican.

The Glencoe & District Historical Society is thrilled to be partnering with the Glencoe Library on this special presentation.