Brantford changes Canada Day marks it with lowered flags, modified programming June 29, 2021 Writer BRANTFORD-The City of Brantford will change their Canada Day celebrations and implement permanent memorials to honour Indigenous peoples, survivors of residential schools and the children who did not make it home. Brantford councillors voted to make the changes at a Special Council meeting on June 28 to show their solidarity with Indigenous communities across the country, including Six Nations, while they grieve for the more than 1,300 unmarked graves found in B.C. and Saskatchewan. “Recognizing that many in our community are struggling with feelings of grief, sorrow and anger over recent discoveries of unmarked graves on the grounds of former residential school sites, and as a result may feel uncomfortable celebrating Canada Day,”