Orange Shirt Day Events on North Shore and Sea to Sky Canadians are marking the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation – a day to honour survivors of the residential school system and the children who never returned home. A statutory holiday in British Columbia, September 30 is also known as Orange Shirt Day, first named by North Shore resident Phyllis Webstad. Webstad, after having her own orange shirt taken from her as a six-year old child in residential school, went on