VANCOUVER - The University of British Columbia is reviewing its awarding of an honorary degree to a Roman Catholic bishop who was once a principal at a residential school where the remains of over 200 children have been discovered.
Camille Bains
Flowers and cards are left at a makeshift memorial at a monument outside the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, to honour the 215 children whose remains have been discovered buried near the facility, in Kamloops, B.C., on Monday, May 31, 2021.
Image Credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck June 01, 2021 - 6:00 AM VANCOUVER - The University of British Columbia is reviewing its awarding of an honorary degree to a Roman Catholic bishop who was once a principal at a residential school where the remains of over 200 children have been discovered. The university said Monday that it s aware of community concerns related to the degree conferred in 1986 to John O Grady after specialists using ground-penetrating radar found grave shafts at the site of the former residential school in Kamloops.