Exploring Theme: "Residential School Monuments"

City of Toronto: The Spirit Garden is a landmark designed to foster teaching, learning, sharing and healing for Indigenous communities and all who visit. It responds in part to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Call to Action 82. It enhances this Call to Action by creating a prominent and highly visible space featuring...

NationTalk: Working alongside Indigenous Elders, Alberta’s government opened the Kihciy Maskikiy/Aakaakmotaani garden on the east lawn of the legislature grounds. Four Elders guided the design of Kihciy Maskikiy/Aakaakmotaani, a name that combines Cree and Blackfoot words, respectively, and translates to “sacred medicine/save many people.” It is a place to reflect, seek guidance and find solace....

IRS (Indian Residential School) Permanent Memorial UpdateIt was announced on September 30th that the City of Calgary signed an LOI (letter of intent) to partner with Fort Calgary on the Residential School Memorial. The location for the memorial will be located at the NE corner by the community garden and a sign was put up...

1st monument east of Winnipeg for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls CBC News: For 22 years, Sandra McNeil never had a place to grieve for her mom. Dawn Carisse, who is Abenaki, disappeared in 2001 after fleeing the North Bay Psychiatric Hospital, where she was admitted after a brain injury caused short-term memory...

Windspeaker.com – “All those children who were taken away to go to Indian residential schools were really loved by their families. They were being well brought up, well taken care of…” — Kwakiutl carver Stanley Hunt A blackened column carved with children’s faces, representing lives lost at Indian residential schools, has been created by acclaimed...

Statue of Saulteaux leader who welcomed 1st Selkirk settlers in 1812 expected to be unveiled in 2024 CBC News: A long-awaited monument to Chief Peguis is expected to be unveiled on the Manitoba legislative grounds next year. The 160th anniversary of the historic chief’s death — which falls on Sept. 28, 2024 — has been...

“The Truth and Reconciliation Commission called on all provinces and territories to create memorials for the First Nations, Métis and Inuit children who did not make their way home from these federally funded and church-run institutions. This healing and education memorial will be open to anyone visiting the Alberta legislature grounds.” Rick Wilson, Minister of...

APTN – Plans are underway to create a permanent memorial for victims of Canada’s residential schools to replace a fire-damaged one that includes hundreds of children’s shoes on the steps of Calgary City Hall. The temporary memorial, which also has stuffed animals and a child’s bicycle, was blessed by Indigenous elders in a pipe ceremony Thursday. The...

Lieutenant Governor Russ Mirasty and Premier Scott Moe announced plans to construct a permanent, public monument at Government House in Regina to honour those who suffered, and those who continue to suffer, the impact of the residential school system. Minister Responsible for the Provincial Capital Commission Don McMorris said.  “It is a fitting location for a...

CBC – A monument unveiled on the Whitehorse waterfront on Thursday offers a place for people to sit and reflect on the residential school history of the Yukon and Canada. It honours former students of the Whitehorse Indian Mission School, which operated from 1947 to 1960. Artist Ken Anderson designed the monument. The Teslin Tlingit Council member...

Grand Opening – The Indian Residential School Survivors (IRSS) Legacy ‘Restoration of Identity” project recreates the Turtle, symbolic of Mother Earth, acknowledges former IRS students, their Nations and Clans and roots them back to their rightful place in creation. The Turtle climbing over a boulder structure (listing residential schools in Ontario) is intended to remind...

A city “exploratory committee” received $200,000 in municipal funding to start the process in 2014, Funds were allocated before the commission released its final report. The committee still needs to discuss details such as site location, artistic form, budget and timeline. (Edmonton Journal)...

City officials announced that a public memorial will be built in Edmonton (Edmonton Journal)...

A monument to honour those who attended residential schools in Canada was unveiled on Monday near the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg (CBC)...