Journée du chandail orange
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French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Calque of English Orange Shirt Day. From the colour of the shirt worn by a survivor of the residential school system, that was forcibly removed by Christian missionaries attempting to assimilate her into the culture of Canada's settlers, and away from her Indigenous culture.
Proper noun
[edit]- (Canada, politics, memorials) September 30th; Orange Shirt Day; a Canadian national observance first observed in 2013
Synonyms
[edit]Coordinate terms
[edit]- Journée nationale de la vérité et de la réconciliation (a coincident Canadian national holiday first observed in 2021)