Flowers, photos and candles were laid out at the front of the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium to honour five of the passengers who had connections to Nova Scotia.

Three people are dead after a small plane crash southeast of Medicine Hat and near the town of Irvine, Alta. 

According to a TSB spokesperson, the plane -- a privately owned Cessna 170 -- was taking off from Whitehorse and heading to Anchorage, Alaska.

RCMP say everyone on a plane reported missing in a remote area of the Northwest Territories is dead.