Further searches of residential school sites are next stage of healing for some Indigenous communities – CBC

Jun 02, 2021

Discovery at former Kamloops, B.C., residential school may be the start of a movement to search others

As the midday sun beat down on the wide-open field in front of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, Stephanie Gutierrez looked out at the row of 215 solar lights stretched out before her.

Each one was placed to commemorate one of the estimated 215 children whose remains a radar survey indicated were on the site, according to the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation.

Beside each light, Gutierrez wanted to place a small pair of shoes.

“These children were here,” she said as she rubbed the top of a pair of gold, glittering shoes that were donated to this memorial by someone touched by the news.

Read More: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kamloops-residential-school-remains-1.6048683