The Steering Committee for the Residential Schools National Monument has announced a prominent location on Parliament Hill where the future memorial will be built to honour survivors and victims of residential schools.
The announcement follows calls from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRCC) for the federal government to “commission and install a publicly accessible, highly visible, Residential Schools National Monument in the City of Ottawa to honour Survivors and all the children who were lost to their families and communities.”
The federal government announced in August 2021 that it would allocate $20 million to build the national monument.
The announcement ceremony took place on June 20 near the location on the west side of Parliament Hill where the monument will be established….