Hay River Reserve remembers students of residential school – Northern News Services
October 5, 2020
A special ceremony was held on the Hay River Reserve on Sept. 30 – Orange Shirt Day – at the site where a residential school once stood.
About 30 people gathered at an Old Village monument – a pavilion topped by a bell from the residential school that people can ring in remembrance.
The ceremony was being held for the first time for Orange Shirt Day.
That is a national observance during which people in schools and elsewhere wear orange shirts to remember and honour the students in the residential school system.
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