Sinclair, who passed away at the age of 73, is remembered as a trailblazing Indigenous judge and senator whose efforts shaped Canada's path towards reconciliation.
All of us: Indigenous, Canadians, newcomers, every person whether you are new to this place or whether you have been here since time immemorial, from the beginning, all of us have been touched by him in some way.
Sinclair organized hundreds of hearings across Canada to hear directly from survivors of the residential school system, addressing one of the darkest chapters in Canadian history.
The residential school system established for Canada's Indigenous population in the nineteenth century is one of the darkest, most troubling chapters in our nation's history, Sinclair wrote in the TRC's final report.
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