Bulletin #29 – Orange Shirt Day: honouring residential school survivors on September 30th
As a young girl, Phyllis Jack Webstad was gifted a new orange shirt by her grandmother before she was taken to a B.C. residential school. On her first day of classes, the shirt was confiscated and destroyed by a teacher. Phyllis’ story has come to symbolize the trauma and abuse suffered by thousands of Survivors […]