Nearly 800,000 Tim Hortons orange-sprinkled donuts sold so far in support of residential school survivors — still two days left to help make a difference (CNW Group/Tim Hortons)

By paNOW staff

Orange donut campaign

Sask. orange donut funds will help James Smith

Sep 29, 2022 | 11:01 AM

One-half of the profits from the sale of orange donuts in Saskatchewan will go to a trust fund to help the community of James Smith.

Tim Hortons said the other half of the profits will go to the Indian Residential School Survivor’s Society and the Orange Shirt Society.

Last year, selling orange donuts across Canada results in $1.6 million being raised.

Over the last few years, Orange Shirt Day (Sept. 30) has become a way to support former students of Indian Residential Schools across the country with the idea coming from a book written by an Indigenous woman in BC.

Phyllis Webstad wrote a book about looking forward to going to residential school but was told on arrival that she could not wear the new orange shirt she had been given.

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Her experience was tainted as a result.

The donut sale effort was started by two Indigenous Tim Horton’s owners a short distance from the Kamloops residential school.

Shane Gottfriedson and Joe Quewezance own a Timmies not far from the school, where an investigation into the deaths of students and discovery of graves started a national search for similar findings near other residential schools.

“We’re both intergenerational survivors of Indian residential schools, so it really hit home for us, said Gottfriedson, former Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation chief and former B.C. regional chief for the Assembly of First Nations, in a new release.

The orange donut campaign runs until October 2.