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The National Canada should apologize for forced adoptions: Senate report
Between 1945 and 1971, an estimated 350,000 Canadian women were forced to give up their babies for adoption because they weren't married.
- 2018
- 00:03:56
- 13-14
- Added on: 09/12/2018
Missing & Murdered Finding Cleo, Episode 10: Cleo's letters
Even though it was supposed to have been destroyed in 1983, the police file documenting the investigation into Cleo's death still exists and it contains more detail than Christine ever imagined learning about the last days, hours and even minutes of Cleo's short life.
- 2018
- 00:54:57
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/15/2018
Missing & Murdered Finding Cleo, Episode 9: Reunion
Christine travels to Pennsylvania for an emotional reunion with her brother, Johnny, who she hasn't seen since she was a baby. Determined to get more answers about the days and weeks leading up to her sister's death, Christine finally gets a copy of Cleo's death certificate. That and other documents begin to shed light on the truth she's been seeking ...
- 2018
- 00:53:26
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/15/2018
Missing & Murdered Finding Cleo, Episode 8: Salesperson of the year
Digging through archives in Saskatchewan, Connie makes a shocking discovery. As she investigates the controversial Adopt Indian Métis program which Cleo and her siblings were a part of, the man who started the program agrees to speak with her about its controversial origins and legacy.
- 2018
- 00:36:00
- 13-14
- Added on: 06/15/2018
Missing & Murdered Finding Cleo, Episode 7: Lillian
Connie's chance meeting with the father who Cleo never knew is followed by new revelations about the Semaganis children's biological mother, Lillian. A picture begins to emerge about why her children were taken, and when she joined the fight to stop the adoption of more Indigenous children into white homes.
- 2018
- 00:31:44
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/15/2018
Missing & Murdered Finding Cleo, Episode 6: Little Pine
A brief encounter with someone who knew Cleo perhaps better than anyone else just before her death reveals crucial details. Connecting new facts about her life leads the investigation to a world far from where Cleo died, back to Little Pine First Nation.
- 2018
- 00:49:13
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/15/2018
Missing & Murdered Finding Cleo, Episode 5: Afraid of the dark
As Connie shares some shocking news with Cleo's siblings, the truth about what happened to her remains just out of reach. Police may have answers but can't share them yet. It's time to visit the one person who's bound to know more.
- 2018
- 00:29:14
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/15/2018
Missing & Murdered Finding Cleo, Episode 4: The funeral home
The search for Cleo leads Connie to investigate a headstone belonging to a 13-year old girl who died in 1978. The cemetery is more than 20 hours away from Arkansas, where Cleo's family has long believed she was killed.
- 2018
- 00:40:30
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/15/2018
Missing & Murdered Finding Cleo, Episode 3: A little lie
Cleo's older brother Johnny is the only sibling who really remembers her, the way they were taken from their mother, and the promise he made Cleo on the last day he saw her alive. He vowed to find her and still longs to fulfill that pledge. A longtime resident of Pennsylvania since his own adoption decades ago, Connie visits him ...
- 2018
- 00:53:39
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/15/2018
Missing & Murdered Finding Cleo, Episode 2: Eyes that haunted me
As new information emerges about where she was sent after she and her siblings were separated, Connie meets Cleo's other sister, April, and speaks with her parents about adopting Indigenous children during the Sixties Scoop. Unbeknownst to April all of these years, her own adoption records actually contain a key detail in the search for Cleo.
- 2018
- 00:40:38
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/15/2018
Missing & Murdered Finding Cleo, Episode 1: Stolen. Missing. Murdered.
Christine writes a gripping plea for help finding her eldest sister, Cleo. CBC journalist Connie Walker pays her a visit and finds the only proof of Cleo's existence is a single, faded, undated school photo. As they begin to piece her family's story together, Christine gets a phone call she's been waiting years for. In it, she receives a cryptic ...
- 2018
- 00:33:44
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/14/2018
CBC Docs POV Birth of a Family
Three sisters and a brother, adopted as infants into separate families, meet together for the first time in this deeply moving documentary. Removed from their young Dene mother’s care as part of Canada’s infamous Sixties Scoop, Betty Ann, Esther, Rosalie and Ben were four of the 20,000 Indigenous children taken from their families between 1955 and 1985, to be either ...
- 2017
- 00:44:09
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/29/2017
