The County of Renfrew held a special ceremony last week, as it continues to take steps towards reconciliation with Indigenous people.
The county’s mayors and reeves gathered to officially open the Reconciliation Garden, which was constructed outside the county’s administrative building in Pembroke.
County council voted last year to support the garden project, “to honour and recognize the individual and collective rights and fundamental freedoms of all people to live in a state of dignity and respect which should be the foundation of our relationship with First Nations.”
“As an upper-tier government, we lead by example,” Warden Debbie Robinson said of the garden at last week’s ceremony.
“It can be a beacon of hope and healing, open to all people. It can grow, as well, our relationships with our Indigenous brothers and sisters”…
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