TRURO, N.S. A simple, poignant church service in Truro on Sunday gave the families and so many others an opportunity to remember, reflect, and honour the lives of those who were killed one year ago. Quintessentially Nova Scotian, it was the sound of the pipes that welcomed families to First United Church, a rare opportunity to come together in a place reserved only for them. After a brief welcome, there was two full minutes of silence in memory of 22 lives lost and an unborn baby a year ago, represented by well-worn stones at the front of the church.
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Apr 19, 2021 7:05 AM
A memorial service is held in Truro, N.S., on April 18, 2021, to remember the victims of a mass shooting exactly one year earlier. (Image: CPAC video capture)
The victims of last April’s mass shooting in Nova Scotia were remembered this weekend.
A memorial service was held at a Truro church Sunday to mark the one-year anniversary.
A few dozen people gathered inside First United Church while thousands of others watched on television and online.
Nova Scotia Premier Iain Rankin paid tribute to each of the 22 victims during the ceremony.
“They live on in you. The families who love them and the friends who long for them and in the hearts of Nova Scotians who honour them today and always. This is their legacy,” Rankin said.
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A man pays his respects at a roadside memorial in Portapique, N.S. on Thursday, April 23, 2021. RCMP say at least 22 people are dead after a man who at one point wore a police uniform and drove a mock-up cruiser, went on a murder rampage in Portapique and several other Nova Scotia communities. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
TRURO, N.S. – A lone bagpiper played slow airs outside a church Sunday as relatives of 22 people slain during a killer’s rampage in rural Nova Scotia gathered for an emotional ceremony to honour the victims one year later.
The sombre event at First United Church in Truro, N.S., which was livestreamed in lieu of being open to the public, began with a provincewide moment of silence.
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