At least 215 pairs of shoes were laid at the foot of a Catholic monument in Edmonton Sunday — one for each of the children recently discovered in a mass grave at a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.
A sea of orange swept over the legislature Sunday as close to 200 people attended a vigil to remember 215 children whose bodies were found buried at the site…
Edmonton and area residents are being invited to publicly remember the children who died while attending Canada’s residential schools. A candle-light vigil is scheduled for 6 p.m. Sunday at the Alberta Legislature. But those who want to mark the loss are also being invited to place children’s shoes at a memorial between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. The event is organized by the Indigenous Law Students’ Association at the University of Alberta. “We just.