More than 100 people wearing symbolic orange shirts attended Owen Sound’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation at Nawash Park Tuesday. Article content

There was a ceremonial fire at which many non-Indigenous people lined up to place bits of cedar and tobacco in. The M’Wikwedong Singers sang and people listened at the Gichi-Name Wiikwedong Reconciliation Garden at Kelso Beach at Nawash Park. Article content

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The day was established in 2013 and became a federal holiday in 2023, to educate people about the residential school system. Government policy required Indigenous kids to attend residential school, to remove them from their families and assimilate them.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission called this cultural genocide.

Among those speak

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