(Left to right) Chief George Cote, Coun. Tyrone Keshane, Sid Gough, Coun. Natasha Pelly and Audrey Gough during the repatriation ceremony where chief and council presented Sid with an Every Child Matters blanket. (Photo by Cory Cadotte)

By Cory Cadotte, Eagle Feather News

Reconciliation: Respectfully bringing the past into the present to create a better future

Oct 1, 2024 | 12:30 PM

Often true blessings are realized by simply being a considerate human being.

Sid Gough, 84, had no idea his gesture to make things right would become an act of Reconciliation that would have ripple affects.

He has family ties to the Town of Kamsack and Cote First Nation, dating back to the early 1900s because his grandfather was a pharmacist for the area.

Earlier this year, Gough made a phone call not knowing it will eventually change the educational dynamics of an entire nation.

According to family lore, it all began one fateful day in the 1920s when his grandfather and an unidentified man from the Cote First Nation met and came to an agreement.

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