If you attended an Indian Residential School, you may be eligible to receive health support services, such as:
– counselling
– emotional support
– cultural support

For more information on these health support services, call toll free the Health Canada office for your Province or Territory:
Health Supports for Former Students of Indian Residential Schools – (Health Canada)

• Atlantic Region – 1-866-414-8111
• Québec Region – 1-877-583-2965
• Ontario Region – 1-888-301-6426
• Manitoba Region – 1-866-818-3505
• Saskatchewan Region – 1-866-250-1529
• Alberta Region – 1-888-495-6588
• BC Region – 1-877-477-0775
• Northern Region (Yukon) – 1-800-464-8106
• Northern Region (NWT and Nunavut) – 1-866-509-1769

Monday to Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm

The Indian Residential Schools Resolution Health Support Program provides the following services: professional counseling, emotional support provided by Resolution Health Support Workers, cultural support provided by Elders, and assistance with the cost of transportation.

For more info, we also have these resources you may want to contact:

Legacy of Hope

Indian Residential School Unit

Independant Assessment Process

Map of Residential Schools in Canada

(click on the map to open a new window)

(Information compiled from the Aboriginal Healing Foundation’s
“Directory of Residential Schools In Canada”)

The original idea for the National Day of Healing and Reconciliation in Canada stems from Australia’s National Sorry Day. On May 26, 1997, a report tabled in Federal Parliament shook Australia. The report titled “Bringing Them Home” detailed painful evidence of the removal of thousands of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander children from their families. It recommended that a ‘Sorry Day’ be held. A year later over half a million people responded, signing Sorry Books and taking part in ceremonies on Sorry Day.

Edward Colley In 1998, Edward Colley contacted Maggie Hodgson at the Assembly of First Nations to discuss how to begin a campaign to engage Canadians to petition the Prime Minister of Canada to apologize to the Aboriginal people of Canada for past wrongs and to offer opportunities for Canadians to apologize personally to Aboriginal Peoples. Edward Colley wanted the same value placed on Aboriginal Peoples as was placed on the Japanese Canadian Apology.

Maggie Hodgson referred him to Carol Jenkins of the Visions Centre of Innovation website at Nechi Institute to look at a web strategy to implement the idea. Together the seeds of the National Day of Healing and Reconciliation campaign were sown.

Though the National Day of Healing and Reconciliation chose to follow Australia’s lead by also using date of May 26th, there is one distinct difference between the two campaigns; NDHR is not only focused on Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal relations.

The National Day of Healing and Reconciliation is a grassroots movement to focus on healing in all nations by addressing lingering issues resulting from past injustices based on our culture, religion, or race. The intention is to move forward by educating ourselves about our history and to engage collectively within our families, communities, and across Canada for the purposes of healing and reconciliation.

National Day of Healing and Reconciliation is a movement of people committed to moving forward collectively within our families, communities, and across Canada for the purposes of healing and reconciliation.

Objectives

• To celebrate a positive, collective healing and reconciliation movement within our families, communities, churches and government on May 26th of each year.
• To educate ourselves and other Canadians about our collective history of government policies which impacted Aboriginal communities and other ethnic groups.
• To develop commemoration sites and to encourage communities to join in the National Day of Healing and Reconciliation.

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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.

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