During the 4-hour vandalism in Brantford, Ontario, the monument to the boarding school victims was burned down.
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Brantford police are looking for a saboteur who spent more than four hours on Friday night sabotaging an indigenous child who died in a boarding school.
The only suspect captured by surveillance video arrived at the Woodland Cultural Center in Ontario-the site of a former boarding school, at around 10:30 pm EST on Friday. For the next four hours, the man burned many items left there to commemorate the victims of the boarding school system.
The country considers the legacy of Canada Day boarding school
Canadians wear traditional red and white clothing on Canada’s National Day, wear orange, build monuments and participate in activities as part of the nation’s reckoning of the terrible legacy of aboriginal boarding schools.
After boarding schools in British Columbia and Saskatchewan found what appeared to be human remains, many special events usually associated with Canada Day were either cancelled or curtailed.
Cowessess First Nation said last week that ground-penetrating radar found 751 unmarked graves at the former Marieval Indian Boarding School shortly after the remains of 215 children believed to be found in Kamloops, British Columbia.
Watch: priest.Ken Thorson talks about efforts to publish residential school records
Dedicated to the provincial priest. Ken Thorson told Power & Politics that the digitization of key historical boarding school documents will take months to complete. He added that Oblates, which runs 48 boarding schools, is seeking guidelines from privacy experts on the release of more documents.9:49
The Missionaries of Immaculate Conception operate 48 boarding schools in Canada, including the Marieval Indian Boarding School in Cowessess First Nations in Saskatchewan and the Kamloops Indian Boarding School in British Columbia
Cowessess First Nation announced last week that 751 unmarked graves were initially found on the site of the former boarding school.
A survey of the former Kamloops Indian Boarding School in British Columbia indicated that an estimated 215 children’s remains may be buried at the site,