Healing, support and truth-telling were the objectives for a community knowledge sharing event in Truro on Saturday.

The National Advisory Committee on Residential Schools and Missing Children and Unmarked Burials (NAC) was created to provide Indigenous communities with expert information related to the search for children who never returned home from residential schools.

As they continue their ground search efforts, they’ve made it their mission to hold Community Knowledge Sharing events across Canada.

Kisha Supernant, the founding chair of the Canadian Archaeological Association Unmarked Graves Working group and a member of NAC, says the community event is a key step in their work.

“It is essential to begin any kind of work with community events,” says Supernant.