Lee Hamelin, Beyond My Control

Series: Ministry Spotlight | Story 5

In 1967, when Lee Hamelin was just four years old, he and several of his siblings were forcibly removed from their Aboriginal family's home in northern Alberta, Canada, never to return again. With the authorities labelling his mother as "morally depraved and of no benefit to society," Lee and his siblings became wards of the government, part of the Sixties Scoop-the mass removal of Aboriginal children from their families into Canada's child welfare system from the mid 1950s to the 1980s.

While the Sixties Scoop exposed thousands of Aboriginal children to the horrors of the residential school s...