The Canada Line City Centre photo mural is derived from a production still from a 1967 CBC documentary about Krista Belle Stewart's mother, the first Aboriginal public health nurse in BC. Krista Belle Stewart’s companion video to her Canada Line photo mural aired on the Vancouver Live! And CBC video screens in the Summer of 2014. It too draws on footage from the CBC documentary about her mother, Seraphine: Her Own Story.
For close to a century, Canada's residential school system worked to fragment and eradicate the cultures of its indigenous nations. While the legacy of this violence has resisted its suppression, it is only in recent memory that the trauma of this history has become public discussion. It is through this lens that watching Richard C. Bocking's 1967 documentary Seraphine: Her Own Story Told by Seraphine Ned draws one into a web of uncertainty. Seraphine was produced for the CBC Vancouver's Camera West series and was screened on September 17, 1969. The film tells the story of Seraphine Ned, journeying from the segregation of residential schools into a career in public nursing.