Orange Shirt Day

On Monday September 30, 2019, Capitol Hill School will recognize the Indigenous children who were sent away to residential schools in Canada by encouraging students to wear an orange shirt. Orange Shirt Day began in Williams Lake in 2013 and has since spread to schools across B.C. and Canada.To learn more about orange shirt day and Phyllis' story, please refer to the link provided.

The “orange shirt” in Orange Shirt Day refers to the new shirt that Phyllis Webstad was given to her by her grandmother for her first day of school at St. Joseph’s Mission residential school in British Columbia. When Phyllis got to school, they took away her clothes, including her new shirt. It was never returned. To Phyllis, the colour orange has always reminded her of her experiences at residential school and, as she has said, “how my feelings didn’t matter, how no one cared and I felt like I was worth nothing. All of us little children were crying and no one cared.”

http://www.orangeshirtday.org