THUNDER BAY – The strength and resilience of Indigenous People were on full display on Monday morning, as more than 900 people took part in the third annual Honouring Our Children Reconciliation Run.
Anika Guthrie, the vice-president of the board for the Mazinaajim Children’s Foundation, said it’s also a chance to reflect an honour the lives of children that were taken and the lives lost during the still painful residential school era.Seeing so many people on hand is a remarkable feeling she added, knowing the message of reconciliation is reaching so many people.
It’s estimated more than 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and Metis children, between the ages of four and 16, attended residential schools in Canada, between the 1870s and the 1990s, the last school not closing until 1996. Also on hand for Monday’s event were Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu and federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh.
“There’s a lot of grief associated with a day like today, but there’s also a promise and a hopefulness of healing,” Hajdu said, noting it was fantastic to see such a huge crowd on hand.
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