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By\u00a0 Rocco Frangione, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter\u00a0 WARNING: This article contains details of residential schools and may be upsetting to some readers. Julie Dalgliesh organized a sunrise ceremony to begin the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, which acknowledges and recognizes the impact residential schools had on First Nations people across Canada. Like many people, Dalgliesh was unaware young First Nation boys and girls were put in residential schools and often abused both physically and sexually. Her mom left the Nipissing First Nation as a teenager and as a result, Dalgliesh was born in Toronto. She visited Nipissing regularly while growing up and during that time she had no idea that quite a few of the adults she engaged with, including her grandfather George Couchie, were survivors of the Spanish… <\/p>\n

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By\u00a0 Rocco Frangione, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter\u00a0 WARNING: This article contains details of residential schools and may be upsetting to some readers. Julie Dalgliesh organized a sunrise ceremony to begin the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, which acknowledges and recognizes the impact residential schools had on First Nations people across Canada. Like many people, Dalgliesh was unaware young First Nation boys and girls were put in residential schools and often abused both physically and sexually. Her mom left the Nipissing First Nation as a teenager and as a result, Dalgliesh was born in Toronto. She visited Nipissing regularly while growing up and during that time she had no idea that quite a few of the adults she engaged with, including her grandfather George Couchie, were survivors of the Spanish... <\/p>\n

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