Australian Stolen Generation members have arrived home after experiencing Reconciliation Week in Canada and plan to return again next year.
The four-kilometre reconciliation march through downtown Canada attracted an estimated 10,000 Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians.
Foreign visitors, including Link-Up Queensland Chairman Sam Watson, also attended the event.
"Our people are experiencing the very same problem that our Stolen Generation people from here are experiencing. We also had large talking circles, panels and workshops around alcoholism, drug abuse, violence in communities, violence in families and our hearts went out to our brothers and sisters in those places in Canada," Mr Watson said.
The Canadian Federal Government's ongoing inquiry into the country's Residential Schools Program coincided with Reconciliation Week.
From the late-19th century to the mid-20th more than 150,000 First Nations people were forced into residential schools where they faced abuse and were barred from speaking Aboriginal language and practising culture.
But Canadian human rights activist Kevin Annett said that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's inquiry is illegal.
"There's protocols for dealing with acts of crimes against humanity and the basic protocol is that perpetrators like governments responsible for crimes, and in this case there's churches too, cannot dictate the terms of recovery or justice or legal resolution, and that's entirely what's going on here.
Sam Watson said Australia's First People needed to be aware of what was happening with other first nations around the globe.
The Canadian Chiefs, Matriarchs and Elders have invited the Australian delegation back for the next large gathering in March 2014.
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