Fort William First Nation put on a fireworks display from Mount McKay on Sunday, July 4, 2021 to lift the spirits of Indigenous peoples in the wake of the discovery of mass graves at former residential school sites. (Leith Dunick, tbnewswatch.com)
FORT WILLIAM FIRST NATION -- A fireworks display set off from Mount McKay on Sunday night took on a more sombre tone than last summer's show.
Originally planned for Canada Day, community leaders decided to push their show back three days and framed it as a spirit-lifting event aimed at honouring the memories of the hundreds of Indigenous children whose bodies were found buried at former residential school sites in British Columbia and Saskatchewan.