Wednesday is National Aboriginal Day, and people in and around Ottawa found many ways to observe the occasion. Among the events were summer solstice ceremonies at the Canadian Museum of History and Victoria Island. Summer solstice ceremony on the shore of the Ottawa River in Gatineau behind the Canadian Museum of History. For us it's just another year," said Kitigan Zibi Anishinabe member Verna McGregor, who helped organize the summer solstice ceremony on Victoria Island. He also used the occasion to announce his government will rename National Aboriginal Day to National Indigenous Peoples Day, beginning in 2018.

Source: CBC News June 21, 2017 19:17 UTC