OTTAWA — Inside a room at Beechwood Cemetery lies tens of thousands of hand-drawn or painted tiles—a powerful display made in honour of the Indigenous children and youth who went…

Under the skylight of the domed Sacred Space building on the grounds of Beechwood Cemetery, a group of Indigenous young people is meticulously arranging thousands of tiny tiles across the floor.  Each tile,…

For the first-ever National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, history teacher Sylvia Smith says volunteers laid out 57,000 tiles at the Beechwood Cemetery commemorating the history of residential schools. Volunteer…

Thousands of people gathered in downtown Ottawa Thursday to mark the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. The day was made a federal statutory holiday earlier this year, one…

…Beechwood Cemetery, the National Cemetery of Canada, will mark the day with a two-hour tour designed to show the “educational and contemporary truths” of First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples’…

For someone who died nearly 90 years ago, Dr. Peter Bryce sure gets a lot of mail. Bryce was the chief health inspector for the Department of Indian Affairs who,…

OTTAWA — For the past two decades, Sept. 11 has been a day that weighs heavy on Georgina McLennan. “You sort of go on with life but on a day…

Beechwood joined Ryan Jespersen’s Real Talk to discuss our Beechwood mail box project! {“preview_thumbnail”:”/sites/default/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumbnails/ZZT3l5tSgjI.jpg?itok=QIDBr1jA”,”video_url”:”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZT3l5tSgjI”,”settings”:{“responsive”:1,”width”:”854″,”height”:”480″,”autoplay”:1},”settings_summary”:[“Embedded Video (Responsive, autoplaying).”]} 1:31:15 | The national cemetery of Canada is inviting people to mail letters…

AS WE MOVE CLOSER AND CLOSER to our 150th anniversary (2023), Beechwood has been researching our past and our history. We dove deep into our own archives, early Bytown and…

Beechwood is not publicly funded. In fact, the cemetery is owned by The Beechwood Cemetery Foundation and operates on a not-for-profit basis. As a result of its beauty, historical significance,…