The 2024 Ride to Reconciliation returns to Blackjacks Roadhouse on August 24 for its fourth year. The Ride to Reconciliation is an Indigenous cultural family-friendly event with a motorcycle ride, live music, entertainment, vendors, poker run and much more.
Jessica Desmoulin, a council member for the Red Spirit Women’s Motorcycle Riding Club says the ride is an opportunity for those to ask questions building on reconciliation efforts involving Indigenous people.
Jessica Desmoulin, council member for the Red Spirit Women’s Motorcycle Riding Club.
Desmoulin went on to say that the ride is one of the biggest Indigenous-based rides in Canada and she hopes that everyone can come out and attend.
John Giroux, Regional of the Redrum Motorcycle Club for Western Canada
John Giroux, who goes by Lil John is the Redrum Motorcycle Club regional for Western Canada, says the motorcycle run helped educate him and those who participate.
Giroux said the Ride to Reconciliation is a way of educating people while providing healing to those who were affected by the trauma. He went on to say “its a way of educating ourselves on what our families have gone through.”
Amanda Knight, board member for the Creating Hope Society
Amanda Knight, a board member for the Creating Hope Society says this event brings people together to learn about what truth and reconciliation is while building allyship.
The funds raised from the ride will be donated to the Creating Hope Society, a non-profit organization established to acknowledge that the child welfare scoop of Aboriginal children in the sixties and seventies is a continuation of the Residential Schools era. The Creating Hope Society’s goal is to facilitate a healing process.
Harley Jamerson, member of Redrum Motorcycle Club
Harley Jamerson a member of the Redrum Motorcycle Club who has been participating in the Ride to Reconciliation since it started says this event brings awareness to reconciliation and the history of Indigenous peoples.
Jamerson said although we’re a long way from reconciliation his goal is to educate people on the history of Indigenous peoples as it advances reconciliation.
The 2024 Ride to Reconciliation is taking place this Saturday at Blackjacks Roadhouse in Leduc. For more information visit our events calendar.
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