Author of the article: Christina Max
Publishing date: Jun 02, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 4 minute read • The Matriachs of Maskwacis sang Grandmothers Song during a ceremony at Bear Park in Ermineskin to honour and pay respect to the 215 children whose bodies were found buried at the former Kamploops Residential School last week. Photo by Christina Max
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Two-hundred and fifteen teddy bears circled Bear Park in a sea of orange Monday day during a ceremony to honour and pay respect to the 215 children whose remains were found on the property of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School last week.
The Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation said the deaths are believed to be undocumented, with some children as young as three-years-old when they died. The B.C. school was once the largest in Canada’s residential school system.