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School Survey on Orange Shirt Day

Orange Shirt Day began in Williams Lake, BC in 2013 at the St. Joseph Mission (SJM) residential school commemoration event and has since spread across the country. The name Orange Shirt Day honours survivor  Phyllis Webstad's story  of having her shiny new orange shirt taken away from her on her first day of school at the Mission. The date of the annual event was chosen because it is the time of year that children were taken from their homes to residential schools. Orange Shirt Day has become an annual opportunity to honour the Indigenous peoples whose families and communities have been impacted by the residential school system, to continue the discussion about all aspects of residential schools and to support anti-racism and anti-bullying work.  http://www.uvic.ca/info/orangeshirtday/ This year, as a school community, we are considering what reconciliation means. Reconciliation began as a movement through the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, who travelled all

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