NEW: Calls to rename the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation ottnews
An Every Child Matters banner covers the sign for the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway in Ottawa's west end on Friday, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
As hundreds of people participated in a march to rename the parkway, an Every Child Matters banner covered the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway sign on Friday morning. "We're going to walk, and every step we're going to take is going to be part of, I guess you could say, like a ceremony just to acknowledge the suffering, the deaths of the past," Algonquin Elder Albert Dumont said.There have been calls for the federal government to rename the parkway since June 2021, following the discovery of a mass gravesite at a former residential school in British Columbia.
On Parliament Hill, the Indigenous Arts Collective of Canada hosted, "Remember Me: A National Day of Remembrance" on Friday morning. Events included an opening ceremony with Algonquin Elder, Claudette Commanda, and the "Their Little Heartbeats Through Living Drums" event.
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