Winnipeggers march for Truth and Reconciliation Day [Video]

Truth and Reconciliation Day honours residential school survivors and the children who never made it home.

This year, for the first time ever, it was declared a statutory holiday in Manitoba.

on Monday, a sea of orange flooded Winnipeg streets as people of all ages walked for the kids who couldn’t.

“Both my children, they’re five, third generation residential family school survivors,” said Daniel Hidalgo at Monday’s march.

Sherry Starr went to a day school in southern Ontario.

“I was lucky enough I was able to go home. I was not with my parents but I was still able to go home,” she said.

“So this day means an awful lot to me because it’s basically an acknowledgment of some of the pain that I’ve gone through.”

That pain is also felt by survivor and Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Acting Grand Chief Betsy Kennedy.

“This is really impacting us and …