This week, community members came together to honour Gillings and acknowledge her unsolved murder in 1995. The group Sisters in Spirit Hamilton also worked with the city to install a sign about Gillings to the lamp post called Helen’s light.
Indigenous leaders in Hamilton invited councillors late last year for a welcome ceremony after their inauguration, setting the stage for a new and improved relationship. Nearly one year later, "things are looking better," says Audrey Davis of the Hamilton Regional Indian Centre.
A local Indigenous artist has welcomed a Hamilton car dealership’s apology over its use of her art installation in an “insensitive” post on social media, hours after Canada observed the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
Sept. 30, 2023 will mark 10 years of Orange Shirt Day and three years since National Day for Truth and Reconciliation was formally recognized as a statutory holiday in Canada.