by TRC Bobcaygeon | Jun 26, 2021 | Current, TRC Bobcaygeon Events
There is a debate across the country about how to approach Canada Day this year. The recent discovery of children’s bodies in unmarked and mass graves has brought a new level of awareness to many. Canada Day Celebrations are being questioned as we are being...
by TRC Bobcaygeon | Jun 23, 2021 | Current, TRC Bobcaygeon Events
Entire Community Mobilized to Remember the Children Taken On our statement TRC Bobcaygeon says… Our purpose as the Truth and Reconciliation Community Bobcaygeon is to foster and develop respectful relationships among Settlers, Indigenous neighbours and the Land....
by TRC Bobcaygeon | Jun 19, 2021 | Current, TRC Bobcaygeon Events
~Sherry Telford (Co-keeper TRC Community Bobcaygeon) On June 16 th , painted river rocks to honour and remember the 215 children who died at the Kamploops Indian Residential School in British Columbia went on display on the wall outside the Bobcaygeon library and Boyd...
by TRC Bobcaygeon | Jun 19, 2021 | Current, TRC Bobcaygeon Events
Bobcaygeon community members honour the 215 Indigenous Children found buried next to Kamloops Residential School Upon hearing of the 215 Indigenous children whose bodies were detected in a mass grave beside the Kamloops Indian Residential School in...
by TRC Bobcaygeon | Jun 11, 2021 | Current, TRC Bobcaygeon Events, Uncategorized
For some people in settler society, the news of the discovery of 215 bodies buried at the residential school near Kamloops BC has been a wake up call to the horrors of this policy that the Canadian government enacted between the 1870’s and 1990’s. As...
by TRC Bobcaygeon | Jun 9, 2021 | TRC Bobcaygeon Events
On May 27, 2021, the remains of 215 Indigenous children were detected, children who had been buried on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia. TRC Bobcaygeon mourns these children and the possibly many thousand more who never...
