Calendar of Events: September 30
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
Orange Shirt Day
Worldwide
Drum for the Missing Children of Indian Residential Schools (Virtual)
2:15 pm
For details, click here.
Victoria
Xe xe Smun’ eem-Victoria Orange Shirt Day:
Every Child Matters Ceremony
12:00-2:30 pm
Centennial Square
Annual event organized by residential school survivors
and supported by the City of Victoria.
Oak Bay
ReconciliAction
10:00-11:00 am
Sno’uyutth Welcome Pole, Oak Bay High School, 2121 Cadboro Bay Rd.
Honouring residential school survivors, their families and the children who never came home.
Cowichan
Every Child Matters March
Registration — 8:00-9:00 am
March — 9:30 am
Starts at Vancouver Island University;
ends Cowichan Tribes Si’em Lelum Soccer Fields, River Road
For information: Audrey 250-732-1708
Maple Ridge
Community Vigil
7:00 pm
Memorial Peace Park
For information: Antiracism@familyed.ca
Peace River
Every Child Matters
2:00-8:00 pm
Riverfront Park
Saskatoon
Concert
7:00 pm
Sasktel Centre
Organized by: Saskatoon Tribal Council
Saskatoon
Concert
7:00 pm
Sasktel Centre
Organized by: Saskatoon Tribal Council
Ontario
Online Program: Speaking the Truth to Heal Together
7:00 pm
To register for Zoom, click here.
Organized by: Ontario Native Women’s Association
Windsor
Every Child Matters Healing Walk
Opening ceremony and speakers — 11:00 am
Riverside E. & Parent, east of Bert Weeks Memorial Fountain
Riverfront Walk — 1:00 pm
Bert Weeks Memorial Gardens west to Assumption Park
Events, children’s activities, closing — 4:00-6:00 pm
Assumption Park
Chatham
Every Child Matters
10:00 am-2:00 pm
25 Eighth St.
Organized by: 7 Generations Indigenous Cultural Friendship Centre; Women’s Equity Business; Ska:na Family Learning Centre
London
Connecting Our Communities
6:00-9:00 pm
Dundas Place (Wellington and Rideout)
Facebook
Toronto
Honouring Indigenous Survivors
11:00 am-5:00 pm
Dundas Square
Organized by Matriarchal Circle
Facebook
1492 Land Back Unity Jam Concert
3:00 pm
Dufferin Grove Park
Ottawa
Remember Me
9:00 am-5:00 pm
Dundas Place (Wellington and Rideout)
remember-me-september-30.org
Montreal
Every Child Matters: Day of Action for Truth and Reconciliation
1:00 pm
Gather at Place du Canada (near Peel and Rene-Levesque) and march to Place des Arts
Organized by the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal and the Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador
Facebook
Every Child Matters Ceremony
12:00-2:30 pm
Centennial Square
Annual event organized by residential school survivors
and supported by the City of Victoria.
10:00-11:00 am
Sno’uyutth Welcome Pole, Oak Bay High School, 2121 Cadboro Bay Rd.
Honouring residential school survivors, their families and the children who never came home.
Registration — 8:00-9:00 am
March — 9:30 am
Starts at Vancouver Island University;
ends Cowichan Tribes Si’em Lelum Soccer Fields, River Road
For information: Audrey 250-732-1708
7:00 pm
Memorial Peace Park
For information: Antiracism@familyed.ca
2:00-8:00 pm
Riverfront Park
7:00 pm
Sasktel Centre
Organized by: Saskatoon Tribal Council
7:00 pm
Sasktel Centre
Organized by: Saskatoon Tribal Council

7:00 pm
To register for Zoom, click here.
Organized by: Ontario Native Women’s Association

Opening ceremony and speakers — 11:00 am
Riverside E. & Parent, east of Bert Weeks Memorial Fountain
Riverfront Walk — 1:00 pm
Bert Weeks Memorial Gardens west to Assumption Park
Events, children’s activities, closing — 4:00-6:00 pm
Assumption Park

10:00 am-2:00 pm
25 Eighth St.
Organized by: 7 Generations Indigenous Cultural Friendship Centre; Women’s Equity Business; Ska:na Family Learning Centre
6:00-9:00 pm
Dundas Place (Wellington and Rideout)
Toronto
Honouring Indigenous Survivors
11:00 am-5:00 pm
Dundas Square
Organized by Matriarchal Circle
Facebook
1492 Land Back Unity Jam Concert
3:00 pm
Dufferin Grove Park

Ottawa
Remember Me
9:00 am-5:00 pm
Dundas Place (Wellington and Rideout)
remember-me-september-30.org
Montreal
Every Child Matters: Day of Action for Truth and Reconciliation
1:00 pm
Gather at Place du Canada (near Peel and Rene-Levesque) and march to Place des Arts
Organized by the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal and the Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador
Facebook
1:00 pm
Gather at Place du Canada (near Peel and Rene-Levesque) and march to Place des Arts
Organized by the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal and the Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador
