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Hill residential school memorial removed

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A memorial that sprung up on Parliament Hill at the Centennial Flame in the aftermath of the discovery of about 215 unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Residential School in B.C. has been removed in advance of the coming winter, in consultation with local First Nations.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

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BY ALICE CHEN

October 27, 2021

The shoes and stuffed animals put in front of Centre Block to honour the lives of lost residential school children, placed in the summer amid a flurry of discoveries of unmarked graves, have been taken down as of Oct. 22, ahead of an encroaching winter that looks set to drizzle the city in a melanch...

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