More than 20,000 Canadians have now died from COVID-19.
Since the first death last March, health officials across the country have shared the grim daily numbers of the pandemic’s fatal toll.
There have been grandparents, parents, single mothers and children. Some were health-care workers and others who worked to ensure Canadians had essential supplies.
Many who died, like Coward-Ince, were residents of crowded care homes, which served as fuel to the fire of the virus during the first and second waves of the pandemic.
Curtis Jonnie, better known as Shingoose, left behind a legacy that many have said set the course for generations of Indigenous musicians.