Canada Day 2021

*215 pieces of orange fabric 

*Quilted using text from the United Nations definition of genocide, entered into force in 1951

“Genocide means any of the following acts committed with 

intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as 

such: 

(a) Killing members of the group; 

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; 

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its 

physical destruction in whole or in part; 

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; 

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”