Orange shirt day is a movement that officially began in 2013 but in reality it began in 1973 when six year old Phyllis Webstad entered the St. Joseph Mission Residential School, outside of Williams Lake, BC. Young Phyllis was wearing a brand new orange shirt for her first day of school – new clothes being a rare and wonderful thing for a First Nation girl growing up in her grandmother’s care – but the Mission Oblates quickly stripped her of her new shirt and replaced it with the school’s institutional uniform.

National Orange Shirt Day is on Saturday September 30 but we will be wearing our Orange Shirts on Friday September 29.

If you are interested in purchasing an orange shirt, we will be sending home forms on Monday September 18 and will need them back with the money by Wednesday September 20 in order to have the order completed and back in time.