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Federal Bill Would Make Sept. 30 Holiday For Indigenous Reconciliation

The Canadian Press, 06 Feb, 2019 08:35 PM

    OTTAWA — Sept. 30 might become a new statutory holiday commemorating victims of residential schools.


    The House of Commons heritage committee approved a measure Tuesday to make the last day of September a National Truth and Reconciliation Day.


    That date is already used as an informal occasion to commemorate the experiences of residential-school students, called Orange Shirt Day.


    It's called that in memory of a piece of a clothing one First Nations girl in British Columbia had taken away from her on her first day at a residential school in 1973.


    The heritage committee put the new federal holiday into Bill C-369, which also creates a National Indigenous Peoples' Day on June 21 — one day would be for commemoration, the other for celebration.


    The bill has yet to go to the Commons for a final vote.

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