An online petition has been created, calling on the federal government to establish a national day of mourning in honour of the 215 First Nations children whose bodies were found at a former residential school property in Kamloops, BC.
It has already been signed by about 23-thousand people and counting…
The bodies of the children were found buried on the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School by ground-penetrating radar last week.
The Kamloops school operated between 1890 and 1969, when the federal government took over the operation from the Catholic church to operate as a day school until it closed in 1978.
The flags on all federal buildings and the Peace Tower located on Parliament Hill in Ottawa will be flown at half-staff this week to honor the lives lost, while the provincial government has also vowed to do the same, along with many municipalities and police services.
For more details on the petition, please click here.
https://twitter.com/Carolyn_Bennett/status/1399051995227504640
To honour the 215 children whose lives were taken at the former Kamloops residential school and all Indigenous children who never made it home, the survivors, and their families, I have asked that the Peace Tower flag and flags on all federal buildings be flown at half-mast.
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) May 30, 2021
I have asked that the flags at all Ontario government buildings and establishments across the province be flown at half-mast in memory of the 215 Indigenous children whose lives were tragically lost at the former Kamloops residential school.
— Doug Ford (@fordnation) May 30, 2021
On Monday, the flags at City Hall will be lowered to honour the memory of the 215 children found in a mass grave at the residential school in Kamloops. They will be lowered for 215 hours, or nine days.
— Jeff Lehman (@jedi_lehman) May 30, 2021
Municipal flags have been lowered to half-mast in memory of the 215 children discovered in a mass grave at a residential school in Kamloops, B.C. Our thoughts remain with all of those impacted by this tragic event. pic.twitter.com/tw5hkp9aS0
— Town of Gravenhurst (@Gateway2Muskoka) May 31, 2021
Flags are being lowered this morning for 9 days to honour the 215 childrens' whose graves were found in Kamloops. We need to continue to tell the whole and accurate history…the good, the bad and the ugly.@cityoforillia
— Steve Clarke (@Clarke4Orillia) May 31, 2021
The Town has lowered flags at the municipal office to half mast in memory of the 215 children whose remains were discovered on the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation Territory. – https://t.co/2gru2yHj3a
— Town of Bracebridge (@townbracebridge) May 30, 2021