The Woodland Cultural Centre, a new museum that was once Canada's longest-running residential school in Brantford, Ont., held its grand opening on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, drawing hundreds to the renovated building that highlights Indigenous language, culture, and art and history.

On Tuesday, some of those who came out told CBC News they wanted to learn about the history of the former Mohawk Institute, while others were there to honour parents or grandparents who were forced to go there as children. Some 15,000 children from 60 communities were sent to the residential school, which was run by the Anglican Church and federal government from 1828 until 1970.

Around this time — this is the fifth year that Truth and Reconciliation Day has been marked as a federal holida

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