After a Banting Memorial High School teacher, Kathy Hacon-Belcourt, read the story in the Muskoka newspaper article “Locked Away and Forgotten” written by Samantha Beattie and published on May 18, 2016, she wanted the three women to come and speak to her students of their life experiences living at HRC when they were children.

Betty Ann Bond, Bev Link and Debbie Vernon were invited to Banting Memorial High School to present to the Grade 9 students who were studying residential schools as part of their high school curriculum. A power point presentation with photographs of the institution were shown while Betty and Bev described what the living conditions were like.

They were well received and the students had many questions which they wrote to Betty, Bev and Mable where a total of 51 letters were received.