The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation took place Sept. 30 with ceremonies across the country and locally at the Timmins Native Friendship Centre and in schools and other organizations across town.

The annual holiday, also known as Orange Shirt Day, honours children who survived government-sponsored, church-run residential schools, their descendants, and the children who never came home.

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There were three residential schools in northeastern Ontario.

Two of them, Bishop Horden Hall (Moose Island) and Chapleau Residential School (Chapleau), were run by the Anglican Church.

The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation lists the names of 57 children who died at Bishop Horden Hall and 56 who died at Chapleau.

The third, St. Anne’s Residential School in Fort Al

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