TRC-Bobcaygeon
Current Events and Activities
Interest in Installation Honouring 215 Children Taken Expands
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 parents...
215 Children Taken
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...
The Reconciliation Manifesto
Over the years the Truth and Reconciliation Community Bobcaygeon has worked towards ‘Shifting Perspectives through re-imagining relations with Indigenous Peoples, Settlers and the Land’. That goal has lead us to continuously review books and documents pertaining to...
Our MMIWG Committee Report
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Sub-group of TRC-Bobcaygeon – July 20, 2020 As we know, the federal government was mandated to come up with an Action Plan this past June, one year after the Report was tabled. Nothing has been done and of course,...
Summer 2020 Update
Truth and Reconciliation - Bobcaygeon has met twice over the Summer. Some groups may have taken a hiatus during this time of Covid, but we have kept on following the threads of actions and activities that are calling to us. Here is a brief update on some of those...
More Stories from Gidgaa Migizi (Doug Williams)
We are sorry to announce that our March 14th, 2020 from 10:30am-noon at the Bobcaygeon Public Library event with Doug Williams has been cancelled due to COVID19 physical distancing considerations. We will try to reschedule when things open up. Stay safe everyone.
Pine Tree Talk with Pam Palmater
This past summer the final report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls was released for public scrutiny. After 2 years of gathering evidence from 2,380 family members, survivors of violence, experts and Knowledge Keepers the Report issued 231 individual...
Pine Tree Talk: Genocide in Canada
This Pine Tree Talk with Dr. Pam Palmater at Trent University on Oct 30. is bound to be informative and impactful. It is a free event. Hope to see you there.
The Paddle Project
Bobcaygeon's Vibrant Village Committee of IMPACT 32 facilitated the annual PADDLE PROJECT. Local artists, community groups, businesses, artisans and community members were invited to paint and decorate wooden paddles. All 68 of the paddles were displayed through-out...