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  • BWG Proclaims National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

    National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 

    September 30, 2023

    WHEREAS: The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day is observed annually on September 30th, to educate and remind Canadians about the history of Residential Schools; and

    WHEREAS: From the opening of the first schools in the 1830s until the last school closed in 1996, approximately 150,000 Inuit, Métis and First Nation children were forcibly removed from their homes and sent to over 130 institutions to..

    Sep 30, 2023

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