Thunder Bay will join the Prime Minister’s call and lower flags at City Hall at half-staff.
The move is to honour the lives of 215 children found in a mass grave at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.
The revelation was made on Thursday May 27 by the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation.
The former Kamloops Indian Residential School operated between 1890 and 1969.
“The flags will remain lowered for one hour for every child whose life was lost, and in memory of the thousands of children who were sent to residential schools, for those who never returned, and in honour of the families whose lives were forever changed,” the city said in a statement Sunday.
The flags will be flown at half-mast until Sunday June 8.
Also a 24 hour Residential School Crisis Line has been set up to access emotional support and crisis referral at 1 (866) 925-4419.
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
