by Ryan Turnbull In his landmark encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si´, Pope Francis remarked that “The history of our friendship with God is always linked to particular places which take on an intensely personal meaning; we all remember places, and revisiting those memories does us much good.” Yet the intensely personal meaning of places and our memories of places can also do much harm. I was raised on a small farm near Binscarth, Manitoba, and that place always invokes memories of intense personal meaning, yet, until recently, I was unaware that the place where my people have lived and … Continue reading Ste. Madeleine: The Haunting of Settler Memory