The Federal Government passed a law making September 30th a new federal holiday. Today marks the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day. It recognizes when Indigenous children were taken from their families and sent to residential schools -- many of whom never returned. During a period of 160 years, the Government of Canada in concert with churches constructed residential schools in a state-sponsored process of "aggressive assimilation" to make children of indigenous people "less aboriginal and more white" with instruction in English and Christianity in order to erase the children's traditions and cultural ties.
It's a time to come together to acknowledge the atrocities and ongoing legacy of the residential schools. We honour Indigenous survivors, their families and communities, to listen with open ears to their stores and to remember those that didn't make it.
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