Ontario marks Truth and Reconciliation day, Toronto opens spirit garden – Daily Guardian

September 30, 2024

A monument to honour residential school survivors was unveiled in Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square Monday.

It’s one of dozens of events in Ontario marking the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, including a ceremony on Parliament Hill.

The new spirit garden in front of Toronto’s city hall comes in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s call for governments to establish publicly accessible, highly visible monuments honouring survivors and thousands of children who died in residential schools.

The garden’s centrepiece is a large turtle sculpture positioned in a reflecting pool that has the names of the 18 residential schools that once operated in Ontario inscribed on its north wall.

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