2022 Canada Day in Wilmot to celebrate Indigenous people – Waterloo Region Record

June 13, 2022

‘Nothing’s going to change if we don’t talk to each other’: Elder Nina De Shane

Angie Hallman is a first-generation Canadian whose family came to Canada from Italy and settled in New Hamburg.

Although raised to be a proud Canadian, Hallman struggled to identify as one while learning the truth about Canada.

“Through my own journey of being proud because of knowing what this opportunity created for my family, I was on an independent journey of learning about the original people of this land and what their reality was,” she said.

The Wilmot Township councillor attended a powwow where she learned that “it’s possible for you to be a proud Canadian and do the work to bring back what should have always been the original treaties,” she shared.

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