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Reconciliation Happens Step by Step

Painted stairs at St. Andrew’s Wesley United, downtown Vancouver. Snapped hastily from the car.

 

The source of the quote was Chief Robert Joseph, OC (Order of Canada), OBC (Order of British Columbia). He is a residential school survivor who became a passionate champion for healing and reconciliation. A hereditary chief of the Gwawaenuk First Nation, he is the founder and ambassador of Reconciliation Canada, an organization that fosters strengthened relations between Indigenous and non-indigenous people in communities across Canada. He played an active role in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission as an honorary witness.

 

You can read about this remarkable man here:

indspire.ca/laureate/chief-robert-joseph-2/

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Uploaded on February 10, 2023
Taken on February 9, 2023