by TRC Bobcaygeon | May 5, 2019 | Archives, TRC Bobcaygeon Events
The United Nations declared 2019 the Year of Indigenous Languages. This declaration was made because ‘Indigenous languages matter for development, peace building and reconciliation.’ Truth and Reconciliation Community Bobcaygeon hosted an Introduction to...
by TRC Bobcaygeon | Oct 22, 2018 | Archives, TRC Bobcaygeon Events
In the Tarragon Theatre production of the play Cottagers and Indians, Curve Lake First Nations playwright Drew Hayden Taylor has turned the serious story of First Nations Manomin harvesting (wild rice) to a ‘laugh out loud’ entertainment. Cottagers and Indians...
by TRC Bobcaygeon | Sep 26, 2018 | Archives
Let me start by saying that our TRC Bobcaygeon Community group does everything by consensus. During our planning process for bringing Drew Hayden Taylor’s play Cottagers and Indians to CLFN and the Lakeview Arts Barn plus the workshops and matinees for the...
by TRC Bobcaygeon | Jan 27, 2018 | Archives, TRC Bobcaygeon Events
Doug Williams has a very plausible theory on European/British settlement patterns in the Kawarthas and beyond. He explained this to a group gathered to hear more good stories on February 25 at the Bobcaygeon Library. Before ‘contact’ with Westerners the Indigenous...
by TRC Bobcaygeon | Jun 27, 2017 | Archives, TRC Bobcaygeon Events
Truth and Reconciliation Bobcaygeon presented four community outreach opportunities at Kawartha Settlers’ Village this summer. On Monday July 3 there was a showing of Gord Downie and Jeff Lemire’s film ‘Secret Path’. On October 22, 1966 a young boy named Chanie...
