Each year we offer campaign materials to organizations and communities considering the launch of their own activities for the National Day of Healing and Reconciliation.

The promotional items for NDHR 2012 are now available free of charge to community organizers. This year we have:
• Draw Sting Back Packs
• First Aid Kits
• Stress Balls
• Twig Pens

We have a map of our partners across Canada that can check by clicking HERE. Are you on the map? You can check your order by clicking on the red dot closest to the address you provided is with in your order form.

If you are not on the map, but would like to receive free promo items, Click here to order»

National Youth Network for Healing and Reconciliation

Join the National Youth Network for Healing and Reconciliation (NYNHR) in Canada. This is a great way for youth across Canada to share your understanding of our shared history in Canada. Indian Residential Schools, Chinese Head Tax, Ukrainian Internment, Japanese Internment, just to name a few. The NYNHR is hosted from the NDHR national office and will focus on sharing knowledge, thoughts and reflections about historical trauma in Canada and what impacts it has had on youth today. The network will also focus on what social justice actions, projects and activities youth are initiating across Canada to build a future based on cultural respect and reconciliation among all Canadians. Like us on our Facebook page.

Project of Heart is a hands-on, collaborative, intergenerational artistic initiative that brings awareness of the history and legacy of Indian Residential Schools to all Canadians.

Project of Heart was created by a teacher, Sylvia Smith, in Ottawa, Ontario to commemorate the lives of the thousands of Indigenous children who died as a result of the residential school experience. Since the inception of the project over one hundred schools from across Canada have implemented Project of Heart in their own classrooms.

In December 2011 Sylvia Smith received the Governor General’s Award for Project of Heart. NDHR and Project of Heart are working in partnership to bring this very important project to as many schools across Canada as possible.
Log on to www.projectofheart.ca to find out how to bring Project of Heart to your school or your community.

Every community organizer or community organization that orders promotional items to utilize at the community event that they are planning becomes an NDHR Community Partner. Please use our map below to see who is a community partner in your area and who our community partners are across the country.

We are always happy to hear from the community.
You can contact us at ndhr@ncsa.ca or call our office at 780-447-9340.
Our office is located at 10975-124th Street Edmonton, Alberta T5M 0H9.

The National Day of Healing and Reconciliation (NDHR) is a movement of people committed to growing together within our families, communities and across Canada, towards healing and reconciliation. The goals of National Day of Healing and Reconciliation are:

The National Day of Healing and Reconciliation seeks to offer people opportunities to communicate, heal and celebrate together through events and activities that are meaningful within each specific community. Through these activities, we strive to create environments for building meaningful relationships among all Canadians: especially between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people.

The intent of NDHR is to promote the reconciliation of relationships between people, agencies, and/or governments who have been mistreated, or have mistreated others, as a result of national policy, historic discrimination or societal perspectives at a given time in the history of Canada. These people, groups and agencies include churches, the government of Canada, former students of residential schools, Aboriginal peoples and other peoples who have been similarly mistreated as a part of our collective history of Canada.

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NDHR Logo Explanation

The four people symbolize the four races and/or the four age groups. but in spirit, because when we do see past the colour we are all spirits holding hands to move forward in healing and reconciliation. The colour purple in many cultures also represents “healing“.

We walk on green grass to symbolize growth. The water is to nurture the growth and to symbolize that Mother Earth becomes richer with watering as we too become healthier when we feel accepted. The sun symbolizes the vision we all share of healing and reconciliation through education and building understanding.

The origin of the National Day of Healing and Reconciliation in Canada stems from Australia’s National Sorry Day.  On May 26, 1997 a report entitled “Bringing Them Home”, detailing painful evidence of the removal of thousands of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders children from their families, was presented to the government.  One year later, a National Sorry Day was instituted sot that the healing process could begin.  In Canada the value of such a movement was recognized by Dr. Maggie Hodgson, and others, and our own National Day of Healing and Reconciliation was born on May 26^th to honor the Stolen Generation of Aboriginal Australians as well as the children who attended Indian Residential Schools in Canada.

In 2008, both Australia and Canada’s Prime Ministers issued formal apologies to the Indigenous peoples of their respective countries. On June 11th Canada specifically recognized past government policies of assimilation, the known excesses of the Residential School System, and condemned the creation of the system itself. It was in this year that the National Day of Healing and Reconciliation in Canada changed to June 11th.
In that same month Canada set up the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The road to Healing and Reconciliation in Canada was finally set on solid ground.
As a nation we will heal and reconcile, and as a nation we have our own date to celebrate: June 11th is our day.