2023 Canada Post Truth and Reconciliation booklet shining light on residential school around Canada.
Permanent, domestic-rate stamps are required for regular-sized letters, postcards, and cards weighing up to 30 grams (about 5 sheets of paper).
Please note: these stamps are sold in a booklet of 8. Order one item for 8 stamps.
This second issue in the Truth and Reconciliation series was created in collaboration with the Survivors Circle of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. Canada Post's goal is to amplify the voices and experiences of Survivors as they share the truth.
Throughout Canada's history, at least 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and Métis children were taken from their families and sent to residential schools in an act of genocide.
The children were stripped of their languages, cultures and spiritual traditions and subjected to malnutrition and disease, as well as psychological, physical, spiritual, sexual and emotional abuse. Thousands of children never returned home.
The stamps showcases 4 residential schools in Canada :
- Kamloops Residential School (BC); Kamloops Museum and Archives (KMA) photograph collection
- Crosse Residential School (SK); Deschâtelets-NDC Archives / Archives Deschâtelets-NDC.
- Sept-lles Residential School (QC); Archives Deschâtelets-NDC / Deschâtelets-NDC Archives.
- Grollier Hall (NT); Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre.