Flags at Trent University Lowered in Honour of Lives Lost at Marieval Indian Residential School
Trent University has lowered the flags at both campuses to half mast to honour the lives lost at the Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan.
This most recent discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves serves as another reminder of the devastating effects of the residential school system that continue to affect communities to this day.
We honour all of the children who never came home.
Together with our First Peoples House of Learning and the Chanie Wenjack School for Indigenous Studies – named in honour of an Anishnaabe boy who died fleeing a residential school in northern Ontario, the University remains committed to the important work of truth and reconciliation.
We extend our heartfelt condolences to the people of the Cowessess First Nation, all residential school survivors and their families, and to all Indigenous communities across the country at this time of grieving, as we all come together in the knowledge that we need a collective response to address systemic injustice and bring about real change.
Counselling supports for the Trent community are available through Wellness Services.