Residential school survivor who wrote memoir dies at the age of 87
PRINCE ALBERT, Canada — A residential school survivor who found a measure of fame late in his life has died.
Joseph (Augie) Merasty was living on the streets of Prince Albert, Sask., when he wrote his 2015 memoir “The Education of Augie Merasty.”
The book documents a decade of abuse Merasty suffered at a residential school near Sturgeon Landing, Sask.
The 87-year-old died Monday morning in a Prince Albert nursing home.