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This calendar is designed to offer support and monthly stories of truth and healing to residential school Survivors and Support Workers. It also offers a stepping stone for public education about residential schools through our detailed historical timeline of residential schools in Canada.

This story calendar presents residential school history and the work of Residential School Health Support Workers, as told by Survivors and Workers themselves. Gain knowledge of important dates presented in an accessible timeline format, and learn about the Truth and Reconciliation events between 2010 and 2014. Read about healing through ceremony, land-based cultural traditions, storytelling, and Recent Firsts of the First Peoples, like Governor General Mary Simon and MLA Blake Desjarlais.

Included in this resource are:

• How Orange Shirt Day became a national holiday
• Reclaiming schools and holistic education
• Veteran's Day
• No one left behind
• Healing through storytelling
• The Truth and Reconciliation Commission's legacy
• Edmonton's TRC Reconciliation Walk
• Métis acknowledgement
• Finding unmarked graves and lost children
• Elders, key to our past
• St. Albert Kâkesimokamik Healing Garden
• Enoch Cree Nation Cemetery Ceremony
• Healing through land-based cultural traditions
• Youth, key to our future
• Connection to the land