Orange Shirt Day - 2021

Orange Shirt Day at Lawrence Park Library Learning Commons

“September 30th has been declared Orange Shirt Day annually, in recognition of the harm the residential school system did to children’s sense of self-esteem and wellbeing, and as an affirmation of our commitment to ensure that everyone around us matters.” Orange Shirt Day Web Page http://www.orangeshirtday.org/

 Join us in wearing Orange on Friday September 29th. 

In honour of Orange Shirt Day and the spirit of reconciliation, classes have been invited to participate in the Lawrence Park Path Toward Reconciliation Project. You are invited to share videos and other resources with your classes then encourage students to think about their connections, thoughts and questions regarding the commitments and challenges of reconciliation and record them on a footprint. Please send your class footprints to the library as soon as students have completed the activity.

Resources to explore:

• Main Orange Shirt Day website http://www.orangeshirtday.org/

• Assembly of First Nations 

• Crown-IndigenousRelations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC)

• Indigenous Perspectives Learning Guide (Historica Canada) 

• The First People’s Principles of Learning

• Lesson Plans and Resources (Manitoba Teachers’ Society)

• CBC News - History of Residential Schools in Canada 

• Where are the Children

• Project of the Heart

• OTF Indigenous Education

• ETFO Orange Shirt Day - Every Child Matters Campaign

• First Peoples Principles of Learning  

• Four Directions Teachings 

• OISE Infusing Indigenous Perspectives in K-12 Teaching  

Video Resources:

• Main Orange Shirt Day website http://www.orangeshirtday.org/

• CBC The Secret Path (2016)

• Stolen Children | Residential School Survivors Speak Out (2008) 

•  NFB Indigenous Cinema 

• Search CBC Curio

And more:

• Learn of residential school survivors experiences: Listen to "Canada's lost residential school children" and "Residential schools".

• See the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation Memorial Map: This map provides a basic overview of the locations of some of the most important sites in the residential school children’s histories.

• The Survivors’ Flag - NCTR  is an expression of remembrance, meant to honour residential school Survivors and all the lives and communities impacted by the residential school system in Canada. Each element depicted on the flag was carefully selected by Survivors from across Canada, who were consulted in the flag’s creation.