Phyllis Webstad

• Orange Shirt Day founder ‘so honoured to be honoured’ with degree from SFU

  Dressed in a red and blue gown and sash, the Orange Shirt Day founder beamed as she received an honourary doctorate of law from Simon Fraser University on Friday. 

  Perspectives

  Oct 6, 2023
  
• ‘The future is bright’: Orange Shirt Society founder on 2nd Day for Truth and Reconciliation

  Phyllis Webstad was six years old when she attended St. Joseph’s Mission Residential School. On her first day, she was stripped of the orange shirt her grandmother bought her.

  Canada

  Sep 30, 2022
  
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• WHL partners with Orange Shirt Society before National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

  The Western Hockey League and the Orange Shirt Society announced a new partnership on Thursday with initiatives to recognize and commemorate the legacy of residential schools.

  Canada

  Sep 29, 2022
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• B.C. First Nations advocates condemn use of Orange Shirt Day movement by trucker convoy

  In a Facebook live video, a convoy protester urged members of the public to wear orange for Orange Shirt Day on Friday, as a "worldwide walkout at schools" takes place.

  Canada

  Feb 11, 2022
• N.B. students taught that ‘every child matters’ by Elsipogtog First Nation elder

  People across New Brunswick wore orange shirts on Monday in honour of residential school survivors.

  Oct 1, 2019
• How Orange Shirt Day honouring residential school survivors came to be

  For the first time, Alberta schools are marking Orange Shirt Day - a day to honour the tens of thousands of residential school survivors.

  Canada

  Sep 30, 2016
• Kahnawake commemorates residential schools on Orange Shirt Day

  Hundreds of school students gather in Kahnawake for the fourth annual Orange Shirt Day, commemorating the victims of residential schools in Canada.

  Canada

  Sep 30, 2016
• Orange Shirt Day for residential school children marked in northern Saskatchewan

  Lt.-Gov. Vaughn Solomon Schofield joined staff and students at the Rossignol school in Ile-a-la-Crosse today to mark Orange Shirt Day.

  Canada

  Sep 27, 2016