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From Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria to Christ Church Alert Bay, where 15 children died at the Anglican-run St. Michael’s Residential School, bells will ring in unison with 45 other Anglican churches in the diocese. “That we discovered the remains of 215 children in a mass unmarked grave at a residential school in Kamloops is a tragedy beyond words,” the bishop said in a video posted on the cathedral’s website. “We are being told, though, that some of the children in this unmarked grave were as young as three. Their death is a large enough tragedy, but even bigger than that is that their parents, their grandparents, their siblings, their aunties and uncles, their communities could not come together to mourn their loss, to honour them, to mark their graves.”
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Operating Dates: 1900 -1973 30 LISTED DEATHS In 1893, the Presbyterian Church built the Alberni Girls Home on Vancouver Island a few miles outside Port Alberni. It was taken over by the United Church in 1925. The school was destroyed by fire in 1917, 1937, and 1941 and rebuilt following each fire. The West Coast Council of Indian Chiefs campaigned for the school’s closing in the 1960s, charging that children in need of care were being dumped into the school. The school was eventually closed in 1973. In 1995 a former supervisor at the school from 1948 to 1968 was convicted of 18 counts of indecent assault against Aboriginal students and sentenced to 11 years in jail.
Information about the Vancouver Island residential schools compiled by the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba. For more information, see memorial.nctr.ca.. . .