TRC-Bobcaygeon Blog
Posts About Events and Activities
Plant Knowledge
A group of us were fortunate to get out for teachings on the land with Beedahbin Peltier (indigenize.ca). We were looking at plants that we could harvest for seeds. Beedahbin is a Professor, Indigenous Perspectives - Fleming College but so much more. At every turn...
Learning by Experiencing
The Grade Six and Seven class at Bobcaygeon Public School had a class outing to experience the 215+ Children Taken Art Installation at the library in person. Members of the Truth and Reconciliation Community - Bobcaygeon were there to share the story behind the 215...
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
This September the 3oth, 2021, on the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we were ready for the drumming at 5:15 that sent our beats out across the universe in time with the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Nation's Honour Song. People without drums beat along with...
Chi Miigwetch
We gathered. We drummed. We sang. We listened to thought-filled words that emanated from the same place where spirit resides. It is estimated that between 250 and 300 people of all ages attended the event at the library in Bobcaygeon for National Truth and...
Action Action Action
Indigenous leaders are reminding us that this is a day for solemnity, for reflection, for honouring the dead in a respectful manner similar to how we mark Remembrance Day. People are also displaying their intentions to commemorate all the children that did not make it...
Reading “Five Little Indians” Together
On Tuesday September 28th, 2021, sixteen avid readers joined in a circle to discuss “Five Little Indians” by author Michelle Good. The Truth and Reconciliation Community - Bobcaygeon has gathered as a group on several occasions to talk about the books and reports such...
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Event Sept 30th
The day formerly known as Orange Shirt Day previously remembered on September 30th will now be known as The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. This move by the federal government to become a national holiday was one of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s...
215+ Children Taken Art Installation Moves Back to Bobcaygeon
The 215+ Children Taken Art Installation had a very successful run at the Maryboro Lodge Museum location in Fenelon Falls. Children and adults alike had an opportunity to interact with the stones and talk about what happened and how we want to move forward in a...
Book Review of Five Little Indians
Five Little Indians by Michelle GoodPublished by Harper Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. 2020 ~ Review by Ann Davidson This is a riveting, raw and haunting novel about five survivors of one Indian Residential School in British Columbia. It is a...