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The union representing teachers across British Columbia is calling on educators, their classes and schools to wear orange, hold ceremonies and fly flags at half-mast from May 31 to June 4 as a form of reconciliation. The move follows the discovery of the buried remains of more than 200 children at the site of a former residential school in British Columbia's southern Interior.
Edmonton and area residents are being invited to publicly remember the children who died while attending Canada’s residential schools. A candle-light vigil is scheduled for 6 p.m. Sunday at the Alberta Legislature. But those who want to mark the loss are also being invited to place children’s shoes at a memorial between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. The event is organized by the Indigenous Law Students’ Association at the University of Alberta. “We just.
Residential school survivors hold vigil in Winnipeg for 215 children found buried in B.C.
Residential school survivors tied hundreds of orange ribbons outside a downtown Winnipeg Catholic church on Saturday to honour the 215 children buried on the grounds at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in B.C.
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Posted: May 30, 2021 5:20 AM CT | Last Updated: May 30
Vivian Ketchum hung an orange shirt outside of St. Mary s Cathedral, a Roman Catholic Church in downtown Winnipeg, in honour of the 215 children found buried on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.(Viv Ketchum/Facebook)
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