Hundreds mark National Truth and Reconciliation Day in White Rock<\/p>\n
Published 12:45 pm Wednesday, September 30, 2026<\/p>\n
Hundreds of people turned out for the Semiahmoo First Nation\u2019s sixth annual Walk for Truth and Reconciliation on Wednesday, Sept. 30.<\/p>\n
An estimated 600 people joined in to mark Canada\u2019s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in White Rock.<\/p>\n
The event started with a walk beginning at Grand Chief Bernard Robert Charles Memorial Plaza on White Rock\u2019s East Beach, near the House Posts, and continuing on to Semiahmoo Park. <\/p>\n
Semiahmoo First Nation Chief Harley Chappell led walkers and offered a welcome in the park.<\/p>\n
\u201cReconciliation isn\u2019t made in Victoria, or in Ottawa. It\u2019s made here,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Chappell expressed frustration that the same conversations on Aboriginal rights are happening year after year \u2013 the same conversations their ancestors and elders had.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy prayer is our children won\u2019t have to take the same positions and have the same conversations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Keynote speaker for the event was Phyllis Webstad, CEO and co-founder of the Orange Shirt Society. At six years old, Webstad was sent to the St. Joseph Mission Indian residential school, where a gift from her grandmother, a shiny new orange shirt, was taken away from her. That moment laid the foundation for what has become a campaign of awareness and advocacy for residential school survivors.<\/p>\n
The day continues with an Indigenous marketplace, performances and a complimentary lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds mark National Truth and Reconciliation Day in White Rock Published 12:45 pm Wednesday, September 30, 2026 By…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-915838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}