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By Carol Baldwin, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Wakaw Recorder Each year on September 30, Canada honours Survivors and the children who never returned home, their families and their communities through the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. It is an opportunity for Canadians to learn about the lasting negative impacts residential schools and colonialism have left on generations of First Nations, Inuit and Métis. The news on Sunday of Second Sons Canada’s appearance in Kamloops cannot be coincidental. At the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc announced in May 2021 the discovery of 215 potential burial sites detected by ground-penetrating radar. This finding shook the country and the world as headlines appeared on the newswire. It also helped accelerate the creation of the National Dayhttps://theturtleislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/facebooklogo.jpg725483