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VANCOUVER, BC - SEPTEMBER 30 : Science World and BC Place are illuminated in orange as Canada marks the first "National Day for Truth and Reconciliation" on September 30, 2021 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Sept. 30 was established by the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to honor an estimated 6,000 children who died while attending Indian Residential Schools. Also honored were 150,000 children who attended the schools from their beginning in the 1820s until the last of 139 schools was closed in the 1990s. Some were removed from their families and forced into the schools, many of which were run by the Catholic Church. The goal was to eradicate Indigenous culture in the children. Some were subjected to physical, sexual and psychological abuse, as well as diseases like tuberculosis. The ceremonies also commemorated the families affected by the schools and the hundreds of unmarked graves of children that have been uncovered, mostly at the schools - more than 1,000 this summer as the search continues. Some were buried and their families never informed of the deaths of the children.(Footage by Mert Alper Dervis/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)