Celia Haig-Brown

… is the author of one of the first books on Indian Residential school written. Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School (opens in new tab)won the 1988 Regional BC Book Prize. In 2022, following the recovery of the 215+ and with input from the original people involved, she published Tsqelmucwílc: KIRS, Resistance, and a Reckoning(opens in new tab).

A person of white, euro-ancestry, she credits Indigenous people across the continent for continuing the education her Campbell River family started. Author and editor of three other books, she is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, a former teacher and Professor Emerita/Senior Scholar at York University.

Also involved in filmmaking, she is currently in post-production for her fifth, a feature length documentary based in the lives of women involved in rodeo production. Celia spent 12 years in the rodeo business with her late ex-husband. Her next book is to be auto-ethnographic fiction based in the film interviews and her own experiences.