09/30/2026
🧡 National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
Today, we pause to listen, learn and remember.
September 30 is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a day to honour the children who never returned home from residential schools, the Survivors, their families and their communities. It is also Orange Shirt Day, reminding us that Every Child Matters.
As a museum, we believe history is not only about preserving the stories that are easy to tell.
Some stories are difficult. Some are painful. Some challenge what we were once taught or what we believed we knew.
But those may be the stories we most need to hear.
Understanding our shared history means being willing to listen to the voices that were silenced, to learn from perspectives that were left out of the historical record, and to recognize the lasting effects that decisions of the past can have on people and communities today.
We cannot change history by looking away from its difficult chapters.
But we can decide what we do with the knowledge they give us.
At the Fort Museum, our journey toward reconciliation includes listening, learning, building relationships with Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers, and working toward a more complete telling of the history of this land and its people.
History gives us an opportunity to understand where we have been.
Truth gives us the opportunity to do better going forward.
Today, we honour the Survivors, remember the children who did not come home, and recognize that reconciliation is not something accomplished in a single day. It is something we continue to learn about and work toward together.
🧡 Every Child Matters.
