A nine-year-old girl from Charlottetown will be P.E.I.'s ambassador next week at a ceremony in Winnipeg celebrating reconciliation.

Julia Fitzgerald entered a drawing, sharing her vision of what reconciliation can be in a national contest called Imagine a Canada. The contest was open to students across the country, with a representative selected from every province.

Fitzgerald learned about truth and reconciliation and the residential school system in her Grade 4 class at the Montessori School of Charlottetown before creating her drawing.

"They talked about people leaving their homes and they were scared, and being forced to learn a new culture," she said.

For her drawing, she focused on the idea of friendship.

"You can be friends with anybody, no matter who it is."