A memorial cloth bearing the names of 4,100 children who did not return from residential schools is carried during a spirit walk on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
On the second annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Canadians were challenged to commit to reconciliation year-round. "This important work of reconciliation is not a one-day affair. As we say, it will take us several generations," Murray Sinclair, the former chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, said on Friday. On the second annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Canadians were challenged to commit to reconciliation year-round.
Last year, Sept. 30 was made a federal statutory holiday in order to remember children who died while being forced to attend church-run and government-funded residential schools, those who survived the system and made it home, and the families and communities still affected by lasting trauma.
Métis survivor Laurie McDonald spoke of his experience in residential school as a two-spirited person. "It's a day for you Canadians to listen, to learn, to understand, to have it in your heart and in your spirit to feel the beauty of Indigenous people, the strength and resilience of survivors, but to learn history," she said.
"Today, we listen to the survivors, remember those — the children — we lost, and commit to continue walking the path of healing and reconciliation with Indigenous people," he tweeted following the ceremony. Ceremonies were held across the country to reflect on the country's history and treatment of Indigenous people. All federal government buildings in Canada — including the Peace Tower in Ottawa — lowered their flags to half-mast from sunrise to sunset.
Hailey Murphy, granddaughter of residential school survivor and the founder of the Orange Shirt Day movement Phyllis Webstad, drums during a ceremony to mark the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation in Niagara Falls, Ont. on Friday, September 30, 2022.
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