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    Orange Shirt Day

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    Orange t-shirt on a light orange background with pattern in many shades of orange
    Sep 30, 2019

    CUPE members are encouraged to honour the survivors of the residential school system by wearing orange shirts on September 30.

    Since 2013, September 30 has been commemorated as “Orange Shirt Day”, inspired by the story of residential school survivor Phyllis Jack Webstad.

    As a young girl, Phyllis was gifted a new orange shirt by her grandmother before she was taken to a B.C. residential school. The shirt was confiscated and destroyed by her teacher on the first day of classes. The story has come to symbolize the colonial assimilation goals of the residential school system.

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