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Taking another step towards healing and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada has appointed Ms. Melanie Delva as its reconciliation animator, effective June 1, 2017.
 
Ms. Delva currently serves as Archivist for the Diocese of New Westminster and the Provincial Synod of B.C. and Yukon, a position she has held for 12 years. During this time, she was part of the pilot project for document collection as part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) and spent eight years working with survivors of the residential school system.
 
Identifying as a first-generation settler of Belgian descent living on the traditional, unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, Delva grew up on Treaty 4 territory of the Tootinaowaziibeeng First Nation and the Métis Nation.

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