A flag is hoisted during Orange Shirt Day Ceremonies (National Day for Truth and Reconciliation) in Calgary on Friday, September 30, 2022. Jim Wells/Postmedia

How to honour the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Calgary

25 Sep 2024, 13:38 by Mackenzie Rhode · Calgary Herald

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the federal statutory holiday introduced in 2021, is observed on Sept. 30, and Calgary has several memorial events planned.

The holiday is a chance to raise awareness of and honour Indigenous children who never returned home, and survivors of residential schools and the lasting impacts of colonization.

While the day has been a statutory holiday for only four years, Orange Shirt day — an Indigenous-led grassroots commemorative day — has been honoured since 2013.