The home opened in Halifax, Nova Scotia on June 6, 1921, to accept black children in need of care who, at the time, were not permitted in white institutions.
In 2006, author, teacher, artist and community activist Delvina Bernard,[7] whose father had grown up in the home, contributed a piece of wood from the building to the Six String Nation project.
[8] An official apology was made in the provincial legislature by the Premier to the former residents and community leaders of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children.
Premier Stephen McNeill apologised for the mistreatment, mental, psychological and sexual abuse inflicted on the orphans by staff members for almost a 50-year period.
An implementation of a process that will not bring further harm to the already open wound, should implore all voices that want to be heard, and potential build healthy relationships with one another in-order to live in peace and harmony.