by Daniel N. Paul, CM, ONS, Mi’kmaw Elder and Historian

The Knockwood siblings

Rose Morris.

Ninety years ago, 1929, Tressie and John Knockwood welcomed their first child into the World, Rose, her father nicknamed her Sunset Rose, she was the first of five siblings, two girls and three boys.

Rose, Isabelle, and their late brothers Henry, Joseph and Noel attended the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in their youth and did not, from their experience, have any fond memories to relate to anyone of their incarceration, just the opposite.

Rose Married Ben Morris and they had seven children. This didn’t stop her, she decided in the late 1950s to upgrade her education and earned a BA from Dalhousie University in 1960. She is the author of two children’s boo ...

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