Acadia University will mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation by offering learning opportunities during the week leading up to September 30, 2022, when the campus will close. This year, the federal statutory day commemorates the lived experience of residential school Survivors and the lasting impact on Indigenous communities.

“September 30th is a day of remembrance of our children who were stolen and never came home,” says Darlene Peters Copeland, the Indigenous Student Advisor at Acadia University. “It’s a day to take time to learn about those horrors of residential ‘schools. It’s a day to try to understand the ongoing intergenerational trauma of residential ‘school’ Survivors, their families, and their communities coast-to-coast-to-coast. Every Child Matters.”