Governor General Mary Simon will attend the memorial and deliver remarks to honour children who never returned home from the Kamloops school.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is scheduled to attend the memorial in the evening, after meeting with Tk̔emlups te Secwepemc Kukpi7 Rosanne Casimir and council members.
Last May, Casimir said a war graves expert using ground-penetrating radar found what are believed to be the remains of up to 215 people buried at an unmarked site at the former school. The detection of hundreds more suspected graves connected to residential schools across Canada would follow, amid a year of reckoning over the legacy of residential schools for Indigenous children.
say the past year was an emotional journey that included reawakened trauma, catharsis and for some closure.
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