City of Toronto opens Spirit Garden at Nathan Phillips Square – Renew Canada

September 30, 2024

On National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, the Spirit Garden opened at Nathan Phillips Square – after seven years in development – with more than 100 residential school survivors becoming the first to walk in the space alongside Indigenous community members, Mayor Olivia Chow, The Honourable Edith Dumont, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland.

The Spirit Garden is a new permanent space to honour residential school survivors and all the children who were lost to their families and communities. It will also honour the diversity of First Nations, Inuit and Métis cultural traditions.

“The growth of this Spirit Garden from concept to reality has also seen the blossoming of a partnership with the Toronto Council Fire Native Cultural Centre and the City of Toronto. This new public space at Nathan Phillips Square reflects the will of many to see truth and reconciliation prominently embodied by concrete actions,” said Mayor Olivia Chow.

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