Alicia Harvey

The Truth and Reconciliation day is celebrated on the 30th of September. But why is it celebrated? What is the link to orange t-shirts?  The Truth and Reconciliation Day was adopted in 2021 as a legal statutory holiday. But, some provinces still do not recognize this day to be a holiday, for example the province of Quebec.  Truth and Reconciliation Day is celebrated to honor the memory of the survivors  of residential schools and their families. It is also promoted to help the reconciliation between the government and the Indigenous peoples.  Residential schools were a system created by the Canadian…