On September 30th, please observe National Truth and Reconciliation Day. It is to remember the truth behind the Residential schools that Native children were sent to, some forcibly. Some even died.

Here is a small video of the painted stones found outside the public library at Bobcaygeon, Ontario. The stones represent a child that had died at the residential school in Kamloops. Sadly, the truth is that there were 4000 recorded deaths at these schools.

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