WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government says Elijah Harper’s body will lie in state in the province’s legislature on Monday.
Harper, who as a member of the legislature blocked the Meech Lake constitutional accord in 1990, died Friday at age 64.
The province says the public will be able to view Harper on Monday afternoon and that books of condolences will be available.
On Monday evening, a funeral service will be held at Glory and Peace Church in Winnipeg.
The burial service will take place Thursday in Red Sucker Lake, where Harper was born and was once chief of the Ojibwa-Cree Red Sucker Lake First Nation.
Jennifer Wood, a longtime friend who worked with Harper in Winnipeg and in Ottawa, said the casket will be open during the
viewing and that there will be a Manitoba flag draped over a portion of it.
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