Sea of orange as more than 1,000 march through Winnipeg for 1st National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
CBC
Downtown Winnipeg was transformed into a sea of orange Thursday afternoon as more than a thousand people marched to the Manitoba Legislature to mark the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
Sept. 30 is the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a new federal statutory holiday to honour the children who died while attending residential schools and the survivors, families and communities still affected by the legacy of that system.
The march was one of several events held Thursday to mark the day in Manitoba, including a powwow, a youth and elder tea and several walks and sacred fires happening throughout the day.
Eleanor McKay honoured her parents at the march in Winnipeg with an orange T-shirt that had a photo of her late mother Marie on the front, and her late father Thomas on the back.
Both of her parents were residential school survivors.
McKay said she's only recently begun to understand how much the residential school system impacted her family.
She said her parents never talked about what they endured as children.
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