Tag: Residential schools
People gather in Grey-Bruce for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
For 16-year-old Jorja Wilson, Monday’s ceremony marking the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Owen Sound was an opportunity to educate others about something in her own family history that she knew little about until very recently. It was only a couple of days ago that the Neyaashiinigmiing teen found out that her ancestors […]
PHOTOS: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation events in London
The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, informally known as Orange Shirt Day, was marked on Monday with events across London that honoured the victims and survivors of Canada’s residential schools. Photos by LFP’s Dale Carruthers. dcarruthers@postmedia.com
Area schools mark National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
As Canada marks its fourth National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Londonâs schools plan to honour survivors and children who never returned from the nationâs Indigenous residential schools. Both Mondayâs federal holiday and Orange Shirt Day are Sept. 30. Canadians are encouraged to wear orange in remembrance of the children who survived and those who […]