Photo: Marites Sison
The Atlantic National Event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC), held in Halifax Oct. 26 to 29, closed with a birthday celebration for former residential school students. Grandchildren of former students-most of them ages four to eight-sang “Happy Birthday” in Mi’kmaq, Meliseet, Inuktitut, Cree, French and English. TRC Commissioner Wilton Littlechild noted that these children are about the same age as their grandparents and great-grandparents were when they were put into residential schools across Canada. The Anglican Church of Canada operated 35 of these schools.
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