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At one North Vancouver elementary school, 215 empty chairs were placed on the playing field with cedar sprigs on the seats, at another, students arranged 215 orange ribbons.
District administrator Brad Baker became emotional while recounting the stories on Wednesday, but each of the area’s 33 schools, like many around B.C., found ways to honour the 215 children discovered buried in unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.
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“We’re noticing two pathways right now in schools,” Baker said. “One is obviously honouring the tragedy of the 215 kids who were found at Kamloops Indian Residential School.
A group of francophone students from Rustico say they are grateful for the timing of a planned visit to Lennox Island, as it allowed them to show their support, and shared grief, after the discovery of the remains of 215 children at a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.
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All flags have been lowered at the Civic Centre in the Town of Fort Frances since Monday in respect and memory of the children whose bodies were found buried at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.
The discovery was made on Thursday when Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation said in a statement that with the help of ground penetrating radar specialist, the stark truth of the preliminary findings came to light. This was the confirmation of the remains of 215 children, who were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School.