True North Aid - 6th Reconciliation Walk
Contact:
Trevor Dagilis
- Registration for this event is now closed.
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28 Sep. 2025 |
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 Kingston-Frontenac
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Dear Belleville, Brockville, and Kingston Rotary Club Members,
I'm Amanda Amesse (formally Stolk), and I am now the Outreach Manager with True North Aid. I've been so blessed to have worked with many of you when I started preparing and shipping medical supplies to Northern Ontario in 2018, and have continued our friendship until today!
I am continuing to work with Katie Koopman, who runs the Good Ally Program, in running the reconciliation walks in Kingston and Brockville.
For many years, True North Aid has enjoyed an ongoing partnership with Rotary Clubs across Canada.
Not only has Rotary supported our organization's mandate to provide practical humanitarian supplies to northern and remote Indigenous communities, but Rotary's monetary donations have assisted True North Aid in funding Indigenous-led projects and community emergency fire relief requests.
True North Aid remains grateful to our Rotary contacts and the relationships that have evolved through working together.
I am reaching out to local clubs to invite you to join True North Aid and our venue hosts on Sunday, September 28th, in a volunteer capacity, as we host our 6th annual Reconciliation Walk at Little Cataraqui Conservation in Kingston, and our 2nd Annual Reconciliation Walk at Mac Johnson Wildlife Area just north of Brockville.
The Reconciliation Walk is a self-guided walk that follows a timeline of residential school history through reading stations along a wooded path. This educational event offers a sobering, yet comprehensive overview of our shared and complicated history, while allowing for both reflection and remembrance of the 150,000 Indigenous children who were taken from their families and communities. Please find our Reconciliation Walk brochure attached.
It is a free event, rain or shine, and from 10-3 pm.
We are turning to your members for assistance to help with simple tasks, such as taking shifts at our welcome table, maintaining the trails and timeline to ensure it remains in place, fire duty (if conditions allow for a fire), take down, and engaging participants in conversation about Rotary's efforts to further reconcition in Canada (or perhaps even your personal journey and understanding).
Online training will be provided on two evening dates in September; members only need to attend one.
This event will also be hosted by the Rotary Club of Guelph and the Toronto Region Conservation Authority at The Village at Black Creek on the same day.
We hope that we can count on the spirit and efforts of your club members to support True North Aid's reconciliatory initiatives in a very real and impactful way.
If your organization is interested in volunteering, please email me as soon as possible.
I look forward to hearing from you!
Amanda