Keep trying. Dream’: The life and message of Murray Sinclair honoured at memorial service – CBC

Nov 10, 2024

Family, friends, dignitaries celebrated the late Murray Sinclair in Winnipeg Sunday

The family of the late Murray Sinclair remembered his life as being “a beacon of integrity and compassion” as they were joined by members of the public, the Canadian Governor General and prime minister during a commemorative service at Winnipeg’s Canada Life Centre to honour his legacy Sunday afternoon.

Murray Sinclair, an Anishinaabe lawyer who was the first Indigenous person appointed as a judge in Manitoba and went on to become chief commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into residential schools and a senator, died early Monday morning in Winnipeg at the age of 73.

A member of Peguis First Nation, Murray Sinclair was born in 1951, just north of Selkirk on what used to be the St. Peter’s reserve. His spirit name, Mazina Giizhik-iban, translates to “the one who speaks of pictures in the sky” in Anishinaabemowin.

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