Exploring Theme: "Phyliss Webstad’s Story"

Every Child Matters will be published on Aug. 8, 2023 CBC News: Phyllis Webstad, the founder of Orange Shirt Day, and author of several books for young people — Phyllis’s Orange Shirt, With Our Orange Hearts and Beyond the Orange Shirt Story is publishing a new picture book called Every Child Matters. Orange Shirt Day honours residential school survivors, their families...

I went to the Mission for one school year in 1973/1974. I had just turned 6 years old. I lived with my grandmother on the Dog Creek reserve. We never had very much money, but somehow my granny managed to buy me a new outfit to go to the Mission school. I remember going to...