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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...
Two Hundred and Fifteen Lives Remembered
Last week 215 bodies were discovered in a mass grave on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. Ground penetrating radar located the remains of these 215 First Nations children who were victims of Canada's colonial attempt to obliterate the...
Take Action on Bill C-15
Faith in the Declaration is a website dedicated to Bill C-15. This coalition of various faith groups sets out 5 actions you can take, including sending your version of the letter below, to see that the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People's is...
Red Ribbon Campaign
The (CLFN) community is encouraging residents to wear red and add red ribbons to their trees or porches for the National Day of Awareness for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls on May 5. The campaign is also in honour of Cileana Marie Taylor, a...
Red Ribbon Campaign
Truth and Reconciliation Community - Bobcaygeon member Ann Davidson painted the above image honouring MMIWG2S (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and 2 Spirit persons). This version was designed to use as a replacement for your Facebook Profile picture if...
Lindsay Advocate Article May 2021
Lindsay Advocate article by Sylvia Keesmat - read online
Open Letter Regarding Violence Against Indigenous Women
Open Letter Regarding Violence Against Indigenous Women Truth and Reconciliation Community - Bobcaygeon stands with the family of Cileana Taylor and Curve Lake First Nation to demand justice from the legal system in the case against Jordan Morin. It is with the...
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...