National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is a day for all Canadians to commemorate and learn more about the history and legacy of the residential school system.

It’s a day to honour the resilience, dignity and strength of survivors and intergenerational survivors, to acknowledge and accept their experiences at Residential School and remember the children who never came home. It's a chance to engage and educate people about B.C.'s colonial history and how it has and continues to impact Indigenous communities.

We wear our orange to honour the thousands of Survivors of residential schools and those who didn’t come home.
With 19 teams across the Canadian Junior Football League, it is the honour of our players and coaches to be able to play and learn on the traditional and unceded territory of so many Indigenous peoples.  We would like to take this moment to recognize them:

BC Conference

Okanagan Sun - Kelowna and area reside on the land of the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the syilx/Okanagan people.

Langley Rams - The Township of Langley is on the traditional territories of the Coast Salish People, and wishes to acknowledge its growing relationships with the q̓ʷɑ:n̓ƛ̓ən̓ (Kwantlen), q̓ic̓əy̓ (Katzie), Máthxwi (Matsqui), and se'mya'me (Semiahmoo) First Nations.

Westshore Rebels - The City of Langford acknowledges and honours the traditional territories of the Coast Salish, specifically Xwsepsum (Esquimalt), Lekwungen (Songhees), Sc'ianew (Beecher Bay), and the W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples represented by the Tsartlip, Pauquachin, Tsawout, Tseycum, and Malahat Nations.

Valley Huskers - The City of Chilliwack is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Stó:lō Coast Salish peoples. More than ten First Nations are part of the community and share borders with the City of Chilliwack.

VI Raiders - The Snuneymuxw First Nation is located in and around the city of Nanaimo.  Their home games are played at Q'unq'inuqwstuxw Field.

Kamloops Broncos - The City of Kamloops acknowledges that we are located on Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc territory, situated within the unceded ancestral lands of the Secwépemc Nation.

Prince George Kodiaks - Prince George is situated on the traditional territory of the Lheidli T'enneh and their traditional lands cover much of the area from present-day Prince George to the Rocky Mountains. The word "Lheidli" means "where the two rivers flow together" and "T'enneh" means "the People.

Ontario Conference 

St. Clair Saints - St. Clair College would like to recognize and acknowledge that it sits on the three fires confederacy’s traditional territory of the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi nations. We would also like to acknowledge the many other tribes and indigenous nations that call this beautiful land home. 

London Beefeaters – The city of London acknowledge that we live, work and play on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak and Attawandaron.

Ottawa Sooners – The City of Ottawa is located on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabe Nation.

Quinte Skyhawks – The Skyhawks play on the land of the "Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabeg, and Huron-Wendat nations"

Hamilton Hurricanes - The City of Hamilton is situated on the traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Mississaugas.

GTA Grizzlies - The City of Brampton is located on the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, Haudenosaunee, and Wendat Nations who have called this land home since time immemorial.

Sault Ste Marie Cougars – The City of Sault Ste Marie acknowledge, with respect, that we are in Robinson-Huron Treaty territory, that the land on which we are gathered is the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe and known as Bawating. Bawating is the home of Garden River First Nation, Batchewana First Nation, the Historic Sault Ste. Marie Metis Council

Prairie Conference 

Saskatoon Hilltops - The City of Saskatoon acknowledges we are on the traditional lands of the Treaty 6 Territory, the original lands of the Cree, Saulteaux, Dakota, Nakota, Lakota, and the homeland of the Métis-Michif nation.

Regina Thunder - The City of Regina acknowledges we are on the traditional lands of the Treaty 4 Territory, the original lands of the Cree, Saulteaux, Dakota, Nakota, Lakota, and the homeland of the Métis-Michif nation.

Calgary Colts - The city of Calgary is located within Treaty 7 Territory and In the spirit of reconciliation, we acknowledge that we live, work and play on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), the Tsuut’ina, the îethka Nakoda Nations (Chiniki, Bearspaw, Goodstoney), the Otipemisiwak Métis Government (Districts 5 and 6).

Winnipeg Rifles - The City of Winnipeg is located in Treaty 1 Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Ininew (Cree), Dakota and Dene peoples and the national homeland of the Red River Metis.

Edmonton Huskies and Wildcats - The city of Edmonton is located within Treaty 6 Territory and We acknowledge this land as the traditional territories of many First Nations such as the Nehiyaw (Cree), Denesuliné (Dene), Nakota Sioux (Stoney), Anishinaabe (Saulteaux) and Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) within the Métis homelands and Métis Nation of Alberta Region 4.