1 / 1Justice Murray Sinclair was one of the speakers at Sunday morning’s ceremony prior to the reconciliation walk that started Dunsmuir and Hamilton Streets.Rebecca BlissettAdvertisement
Despite heavy rain, thousands showed up to the corner of Dunsmuir and Hamilton Streets to take part of the Truth and Reconciliation Walk Sunday morning. Kicking off the four-kilometre walk through downtown Vancouver was a series of speeches, including the keynote by Bernice King, daughter of American civil rights advocate Martin Luther King Jr. The walk ended a week-long gathering held by Reconciliation Canada, an independent collaboration between the Indian Residential School Survivors Society and Tides Canada Initiatives Society. The idea was to bring First Nations people together, along with other Canadians, to share experiences and to talk about the wounds left by the government-funded, church-run residential schools.
