Residential School survivors to be honoured with Orange Shirt Day
Locals will join Residential School survivors this week to honour them in a special ceremony.
The event is part of national Orange Shirt Day, to raise awareness about a dark part of Canada’s history when many Indigenous children were subjected to abuse.
To recognize the day, organizers encourage participants to wear an orange shirt, a symbol from B.C. residential school survivor Phyllis Webstad who as a child was stripped of her own clothing and her shiny new orange shirt when she started residential school.
Elder Ethel Stone who is part of the Elders’ Council for Living Sky School Division is also a survivor.