Graves
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88 suspected unmarked graves found at residential school in northern AlbertaSucker Creek First Nation Chief Roderick Willier remembers never feeling safe during the decade he spent at a residential school in northern Alberta.CanadaJun 29, 2023
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Ceremony gives residential school survivors sense of ‘finality,’ reclaim their spiritsSurvivors who attended a residential school on the land that Poundmaker's Lodge now sits on have come together for a three day celebration of healing and reclamation.CanadaJun 14, 2023
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Veteran graves of Alberta ghost town cemetery never left aloneMountain Park is an abandoned ghost town in the Alberta foothills. Some people have gone to great lengths to ensure those buried in its cemetery are not abandoned.FeaturesNov 11, 2022
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Hundreds of North Okanagan students honour veterans through ‘No Stone Left Alone’Now in its seventh year in Vernon, B.C., Canada's No Stone Left Alone program has grown exponentially from just one class in 2016 to hundreds of North Okanagan kids this year.CanadaNov 2, 2022
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No Stone Left Alone honours Okanagan veteransIn the lead-up to Remembrance Day, around 300 Vernon, B.C. students are laying poppies on the gravestones of over a thousand veterans.NewsNov 4, 2021
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USask project locating unmarked grave sites could aid in Canadian reconciliation effortsTechniques and technology being used in the research could also be used to uncover more about the tragic history of the Canadian residential school system.CanadaApr 8, 2021
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More bodies in single graves among sustainability solutions for Vancouver cemeteryCity council approved bylaw amendments for Mountain View Cemetery this week that would allow strangers to share graves, with three or more bodies in a single site.Oct 27, 2019
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‘It’s a job you take home’: Dealing with burnout in the advocacy community"Advocates are so busy trying to help everybody else, sometimes we forget to help ourselves."FeaturesOct 9, 2019
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Kingston cemetery faces social media backlash for removing items from gravesA Kingston cemetery is facing heat on social media for removing items left by family members on graves of the deceased.CanadaJul 10, 2018
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Investigation underway after vandals topple 25 monuments inside St. Thomas cemeteryThe vandals did an estimated $1,500 in damage inside the cemetery.CrimeJul 14, 2017
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