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AP / Jul 1, 2021, 02:43 IST
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A memorial in province of British Columbia, Friday, June 18, 2021, for the 215 children whose bodies were discovered near the Kamloops Indian Residential School, in Kamloops, Canada. (NYT)
CRANBROOK: A Canadian Indigenous community said Wednesday a search using ground-penetrating radar has found 182 human remains in unmarked graves at a site near a former residential school that housed Indigenous children taken from their families.
The latest discovery of graves near Cranbrook, British Columbia follows reports of similar findings at two other such Catholic Church-run schools, one of more than 600 unmarked graves and another of 215 bodies.
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SIX NATIONS OF THE GRAND-Her Majesty’s Royal Chapel of the Mohawks is currently doubling down on security by erecting a fence around the entire church and cemetery after receiving threats of a possible arson.
Workers put up fence around the chapel Wednesday June 30 2021 on the eve of Canada Day. (Photo by Jim C. Powless Turtle Island News)
On Wednesday afternoon a two-man crew from PuroClean Paramedics of Property Damage were setting up the metal fence at the church on Mohawk Road.
A representative at the church would not answer questions about the fence.
However, Turtle Island News has learned church officials moved to protect the historic church after receiving threats of burning the church. Threats and angry remarks were also spotted on Facebook after an employee planted flowers around the church she was accused of “hiding the crimes.”
OTTAWA Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and some Indigenous leaders say arson and vandalism targeting churches is not the way to get justice following the discovery of unmarked graves at former residential schools. This is not the way to go. The destruction of places of worship is unacceptable and it must stop, Trudeau said Wednesday. We must work together to right past wrongs. Several Catholic churches have recently been vandalized or damaged in suspicious fires following the discovery of unmarked graves at former residential school sites in British Columbia and Saskatchewan. Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde said he understands people are angry but burning churches is not the way to proceed.
Fire destroys Catholic church north of Edmonton, town cancels Canada Day festivities
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By The Canadian Press on June 30, 2021.
A fire burns a Catholic Church as shown in this handout image provided by Tracy Dalzell-Heise in Morinville, Alta., on Wednesday, June 30, 2021. RCMP say in a release that officers were called to the blaze at St. John Baptiste Parish in Morinville, about 40 kilometres north of Edmonton, just after 3 a.m. They are calling the fire suspicious. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Communications and Legislative Services-Tracy Dalzell-Heise MANDATORY CREDIT
MORINVILLE, Alta. – Alberta’s premier is condemning what he calls “arson attacks at Christian churches” after a historic parish was destroyed in a fire that prompted a small town to cancel its Canada Day celebrations.
Fire destroys Catholic church north of Edmonton, town cancels Canada Day festivities
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A fire burns a Catholic Church as shown in this handout image provided by Tracy Dalzell-Heise in Morinville, Alta., on Wednesday, June 30, 2021. RCMP say in a release that officers were called to the blaze at St. John Baptiste Parish in Morinville, about 40 kilometres north of Edmonton, just after 3 a.m. They are calling the fire suspicious. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Communications and Legislative Services-Tracy Dalzell-Heise MANDATORY CREDIT
MORINVILLE, Alta. – Alberta’s premier is condemning what he calls “arson attacks at Christian churches” after a historic parish was destroyed in a fire that prompted a small town to cancel its Canada Day celebrations.