Truth and Reconciliation Week will begin Monday with a rich educational program about the legacy of the boarding school system.
This second edition, under the theme “In Memory of Children”, returns to the National Center for Truth and Reconciliation (CNVR), which insists on the necessary work of remembrance of the victims and survivors of boarding schools.
“This year, CNVR continues the conversation in remembrance of the children who never returned from boarding schools and making sure everyone in Canada can listen to survivors speak their truth,” the organization said Wednesday in a press release.
In addition to activities being broadcast on social media, a rally will be held in Mississauga on September 29, bringing together boarders and survivors, Indigenous artists and knowledge keepers.
The program of activities will be punctuated by the September 30th commemoration of the second National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, when young people will celebrate Orange Shirt Day on Parliament Hill.
In addition, more than 150,000 children across the country are estimated to have been forced into boarding schools, according to the National Center for Truth and Reconciliation, based at the University of Manitoba.