Boys Don't Cry

For nearly half a century, the Christian Brothers who ran St. John's and St. Joseph's training schools presided over an unparalleled reign of perversion and terror. The story of how David McCann led the surviving wards on a crusade for recognition and justice is stirring and heartbreaking, a triumph of determination in the face of callous indifference.

David McCann was sent to St. Joseph's Training School for Boys in Alfred, Ontario, in 1958. He was twelve years old. Over the course of the n...