Bridget Moran documentary released
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PRINCE GEORGE – A new Telus Original documentary has been released on YouTube this week and it focuses on a true champion for the North: Bridget Moran.
It talks about her early years in social work and giving her voice to those who couldn’t speak for themselves. She fought especially hard for First Nations in the region, those who lived through the residential school experience.
“Who do you remember in your life? It’s the people who stood out and did something. And, for me, she definitely did that,” says Murry Krause, who worked with Moran in social work and sat with her around the Boardroom for the College of New Caledonia.
In 1964, after seeing too much strife and a government that was doing nothing, she wrote an open letter to then-Premier W.A.C. Bennett, accusing him of smiling “as he is reminded if women and children appealing to his government for help which it is certain they will not get or, if they do get it, they will not get it soon enough.”
Her efforts got her fired from her position in government and blacklisted. But it didn’t take the fight out of her. In 1988, she released her first book, Stony Creek Woman” about Mary John.
