National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Belleville awash in orange shirts Day of Truth and Reconciliation remembers 150,000 Indigenous children taken from their home and families and placed in residential schools. Photo by DEREK BALDWIN / The IntelligencerArticle content National Day for Truth and Reconciliation supporters donned orange shirts and buttons in Belleville on Tuesday to observe the continued struggle by Canada’s Indigenous people for parity on historical lands. Try refreshing your browser, or National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Belleville awash in orange shirts Back to video We apologize, but this video has failed to load. The story behind this started with Phyllis Webster, a residential school survivor when she was six-years-old. On her first day of school, she wore an orange shirt that was gifted to her by her grandmother.