VANCOUVER Bells at Anglican churches across Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands chimed 215 times Sunday, once for each child whose remains were recently found at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. “We need to start somewhere and we need to signify and signal something,” said Reverend Ross Bliss, vicar of Christ Church Cathedral in Vancouver. “(We need to) signal intent that, you know, we get that this is a horrible thing, this is an important thing and we are implicated. So we’re starting there.” Locals stopped in their steps or sat to listen as the chimes played at noon Sunday, after services.
The Vancouver Canucks first lit Rogers Arena with orange Monday evening and they plan to keep doing so indefinitely, the team has confirmed to Postmedia News. After last week’s news that the remains of 215 children had been found on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School the Canucks announced on Monday that they would light up the building in orange in their memory and in recognition of the collective tragedy that Canada’s.