Canadian Museum of History to house memorial monument on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
An Indian Residential School Memorial Monument, towering six-metre, would be unveiled on Monday, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation at Gatineau, Que, starting at 6 p.m.
Having travelled across Canada, nearly 5 m tall, and standing on a 1.2 m base, it’s 1.2 m wide, and dedicated to a dark time in Canadian history, the monument has found a permanent home in the Canadian Museum of History.
Meant to represent children missing, and dead children in the residential school system, the wooden monument was created by Artist Stanley C. Hunt, a Kwagu’l Indigenous carver from British Columbia.
The monument will be available to the public starting on Monday.
Guided by elders Annie Smith and Robert St-Georges, since The Faculty of Medicine’s Indigenous Program was started in 2005, the new garden to be unveiled at the Roger Guindon Hall in honour of Smith and St-George, to reaffirms the faculty’s respect for Indigenous traditional medicine.
Aiming to integrate Indigenous knowledge into traditionally disconnected institutional spaces from these perspectives.the garden will also be used as a real-life classroom by the Faculty of Medicine to demonstrate medicinal plants used in healing ceremonies.
(Reporting by Asha Bajaj
IBNS
Senior Staff Reporter at Northeast Herald, covering news from Tripura and Northeast India.
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