Complex sentence: One of five children, her mother, Helené, helped support the family by trading garden grown vegetables and her father, Paul, was a residential school survivor and served in the First World War who worked as a carpenter and farm hand.
Split into simpler sentences: One of five children, her mother, Helené, helped support the family by trading garden grown vegetables. Her father, Paul, was a residential school survivor and served in the First World War working as a carpenter and farm hand.