Belleville teenager Hudson Mulvihill is honouring the memory of the remains of 215 First Nations’ children discovered in a makeshift grave at a former…
SASKATOON On Sunday afternoon, people laid children’s shoes on the steps of St. Paul Co-Cathedral in Saskatoon to honour the lives of the 215 children found buried on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. For those who attended residential school, it serves as an intense reminder. “I really, really got ill, think of those of those poor little babies that happened too,” said Marina Ghardypie. “Man did we ever, endure a lot.” Ghardypie attended Duck Lake residential school in the 1950s and 60s. “I feel fortunate I survived all that,” she told CTV News. Alice Aby is a Secwépemc elder who attended a residential school in the Shuswap area.
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To mourn and move forward, potential residential school grave sites in Sask. must be investigated: FSIN chief The FSIN says sites including the Muskowekwan IRS, Onion Lake St. Anthony s IRS, Beauval IRS, Guy Hill IRS, Lebret IRS and Sturgeon Landing IRS have potential mass graves.
Author of the article: Dave Deibert • Saskatoon StarPhoenix
Publishing date: May 31, 2021 • 25 minutes ago • 4 minute read • Shoes are laid around the Centennial Flame on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in memory of the 215 children whose remains were found at the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School at Tk emlups te Secwépemc First Nation in Kamloops, B.C., on Sunday, May 30, 2021, Photo by Justin Tang /The Canadian Press
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