NIAGARA ESCARPMENT BIOSPHERE NETWORK BLOG

15/10/2025

The Woodland Cultural Centre’s Mohawk Institute: International Site of Conscience is now open to the public. Exhibit Project Director and Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Network Board Member Tim Johnson, along with co-lead Rick Hill, senior historian and curator, spent years working with Survivors and guiding a professional team in preparing the site’s exhibit, which opened on September 30, 2025, National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

The Mohawk Institute: International Site of Conscience is clearly one of the most significant Indigenous heritage and interpretive sites ever developed within Canada, so important is its meaning and purpose. It will now serve to educate the public, about the impacts of Indian Residential Schools, for generations to come.

We encourage everyone to view this short film, go to the Woodland Cultural Centre’s webpage, and visit this historic site in Brantford, Ontario (Six Nations of the Grand River) situated just west of the Niagara Escarpment.

(photos by Alex Heidbuechel)

See the recognition film: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1ZcW43iF1u