Posted: Jun 27, 2021 8:33 PM ET | Last Updated: June 28
Indigenous and non-Indigenous community members gathered at a vigil in Mississauga on Sunday to mourn the discovery of unmarked graves of Indigenous children in British Columbia and Saskatchewan.(Jessica Cheung / CBC)
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The Indigenous community and non-Indigenous allies held a vigil in Mississauga on Sunday to remember the Indigenous children found in unmarked graves across residential schools in Canada.
Crowds of people clad in orange shirts attended to mourn the 215 children from the Tk emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation believed to be buried at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia and the 751 children from the Cowessess First Nation buried at the site of the Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan.