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October 11

Fifth intergenerational march on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation commemorates Indigenous residential school survivors

newsZoé Stojanovic and Julian Coyle Forst with photos by Sidney Shaw and Zoe Wagner

Marking Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept. 30, UBC’s Faculties of Land and Food Systems (LFS) and Forestry hosted the fifth annual Intergenerational March to Commemorate Orange Shirt Day. Read More.

MP Wade Grant in orange shirt addresses the crowd at the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre.
Zoe Wagner / The Ubyssey
A crowd of orange-shirted attendees gather at the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre.
Zoe Wagner / The Ubyssey
Dana-Lyn Mackenzie, lead organizer of the march, speaking into a microphone with the Reconciliation Pole in the background.
Sidney Shaw / The Ubyssey
An orange-shirted attendee help another paint their hands white in order to mark the engineering cairn.
Sidney Shaw / The Ubyssey
Two children add white handprints to the Engineering Cairn, painted orange.
Sidney Shaw / The Ubyssey
An adult and their child.
Sidney Shaw / The Ubyssey
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