Canadian PM Justin Trudeau denounces toppling of statues of Royals in protest at deaths of 1,000 indigenous children as head of Queen Victoria is recovered from river
Several Catholic churches have recently been vandalized or damaged in fires following the discovery of more than 1,100 unmarked graves
The graves were found at the sites of three former residential schools run by the church in British Columbia and Saskatchewan
Generations of Indigenous children had been forced to attend the schools
Trudeau, himself a Catholic, said he understands the anger many people feel toward the federal government and Catholic church
On Thursday, statues of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth on the grounds of the Manitoba legislature were tied with ropes and pulled down by a crowd