Students to mark Orange Shirt Day

Students march to raise awareness of residential schools

Students of Bishop’s University, Champlain College Lennoxville, Bishop’s College School and Alexander Galt Regional High School will gather to march on Orange Shirt Day, which aims to honour and remember the memory of residential schools survivors and victims, raise awareness of residential schools and foster reconciliation with Indigenous peoples.

Orange Shirt Day commemorates the experience of Phyllis Webstad, from Dog Creek reserve in British Columbia, who had the new orange shirt her grandmother had given her taken away from her on her first day in residential school.

The march will begin on the Bishop’s University Campus, and will end at Bishop’s College School, crossing the St. Francis bridge.

WHAT:
Orange Shirt Day march

WHERE:
March begins in from of McGreer Hall
Bishop’s University
2600 College Street
Sherbrooke, QC

WHEN:
Thursday September 27, 2018
12:30 p.m.

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MEDIA INQUIRIES:

Olivier Bouffard
Director of Communications
819-822-9600 ext. 2840
olivier.bouffard@ubishops.ca