Harriet Johnson, centre, and Tracy Dorrington-Skinner, fourth from left, along with family and lawyer Ray Wagner (LLB’79), far right, talk to the media.

Several Dalhousie graduates helped secure a life-changing $29-million settlement for former residents of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children. The residents were subject to various forms of abuse during their time at the Dartmouth orphanage.

Mike Dull (BSc’03, LLB’06), Gordon Earle (BA’63), the Hon. Arthur LeBlanc (LLB’68), Catherine Lunn (LLB’84) and Ray Wagner (LLB’79) all played key roles in the class-action suit.

The settlement is just one step, as an inquiry will now begin into how the abuses occurred.

Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil expressed his happiness with the result and the pending investigation, adding that “former residents and all Nova Scotians deserve answers about what happened.”

Read more in “Home for Colored Children survivors celebrate settlement,” on thechronicleherald.ca.

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