National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

September 2022

 

Last year, the federal government established September 30 as Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. The day was already recognized as Orange Shirt Day, started in 2013 by Phyliss Webstad, a residential school survivor. Depending on where you are, smudges, walks, talks, and different gatherings may be among scheduled acts and activities – or you could take a few moments to read these calls-to-action (of which this National Day is #80).

From the ArchivesCanada 150

Sending Up Kites

BY Matthew Hollett

NEWFOUNDLAND QUARTERLY was founded in 1901, the same year Marconi flew a 500-foot kite on Signal Hill and intercepted the first trans-Atlantic wireless transmission. The second-oldest magazine in Canada, NQ began as “a literary magazine of interest to Newfoundlanders at home and abroad,” which is not far off the way it describes itself today, as “a cultural journal of Newfoundland and Labrador.” That’s a remarkable persistency of purpose over 116 years.