Crosswalk to reconciliation in Lambeth, Ont.
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A London, Ont. woman has started a grassroots initiative to recognize her community neighbours and broader Indigenous communities in Canada.
A London, Ont. woman has started a grassroots initiative to recognize her community neighbours and broader Indigenous communities in Canada.
Janeen Hassan Stewart is working to create an orange crosswalk in Lambeth to honour nearby First Nations and, most importantly, to mourn the loss of children in the residential school system in Canada.
“It’s about us as a community showing that we care and that we are grieving with them,” she tells CTV London.
The crosswalk Hassan Stewart is working to transform is located on the west side of the intersection of Colonel Talbot Road and Main Street.
She began to pursue the project a year ago, weeks before the city installed three orange crosswalks downtown and in front of the N’Amerind Centre at Colborne and Horton Streets.
Given the proximity of Lambeth to First Nations and the commerce shared she felt passionate Lambeth needed an orange crosswalk.
