09/25/2025
ARH invites members of the community to a vigil - including a smudging ceremony and to***co offering - hosted by the Circle of Turtle Lodge to honour the children who never returned home from residential schools, as well as Survivors, their families, and communities.
🔶 September 29, 2025 🔶
11:00 am: The Grove Home Courtyard
1:00pm: The Hospital (courtyard by Entrance D)
For more than a century, residential schools forcibly separated over 150,000 First Nations, Inuit, and Métis children from their families and communities. Many children were denied food, care, and safety. They were stripped of language, culture, and identity. Some never made it home.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada has since confirmed what Survivors have long told us: that the residential school system was an act of cultural genocide, leaving a legacy of trauma that continues to affect generations.
It is only through listening, learning, and acknowledging this painful history that we can walk the path of reconciliation together. This vigil is an opportunity for reflection, solidarity, and remembrance.
We encourage everyone to wear orange and attend as we pause to remember, reflect, and recommit to creating a future rooted in respect, healing, and reconciliation.
Thank you for joining us in this important moment of remembrance.
