Local elder lit Sacred Fre in memory of ancestors who died in residential schools; 'My heart cried along with theirs as I watched them bleed sorrow into the flames'
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From Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria to Christ Church Alert Bay, where 15 children died at the Anglican-run St. Michael’s Residential School, bells will ring in unison with 45 other Anglican churches in the diocese. “That we discovered the remains of 215 children in a mass unmarked grave at a residential school in Kamloops is a tragedy beyond words,” the bishop said in a video posted on the cathedral’s website. “We are being told, though, that some of the children in this unmarked grave were as young as three. Their death is a large enough tragedy, but even bigger than that is that their parents, their grandparents, their siblings, their aunties and uncles, their communities could not come together to mourn their loss, to honour them, to mark their graves.”
A group of residential-school survivors is moving ahead with plans to use ground-penetrating radar at five former residential school sites on Vancouver Island, saying they can’t wait for . . .