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Journée du chandail orange
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French
Alternative forms
fr Journée du t-shirt orange
Etymology
fr en 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 en Canada's settlers, and away from her en Indigenous culture.
Proper noun
f Journée du chandail orange
fr Canada politics memorials September 30th; Orange Shirt Day; a Canadian national observance first observed in 2013
Synonyms
fr Journée du t-shirt orange Jour du chandail orange Jour du t-shirt orange
Coordinate terms
fr Journée nationale de la vérité et de la réconciliation a coincident Canadian national holiday first observed in 2021