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A sign explained the display offers visitors a moment to reflect on the memory of the children found at the Kamloops Indian Residential School.

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Langley City Coun. Rosemary Wallace, a director with the foundation, joined in the volunteer effort.

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Volunteer Una-Ann Moyer, a former aboriginal support worker in the Langley school district, said the crosses make a visual statement that a number does not.

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It was an opinion shared by Langley City resident Judy Goldsmith, a board member on the , who said seeing the crosses filling the green space in the front of the park makes them more than 香蕉视频直播渢his number in our head.香蕉视频直播�

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In May, the Tk香蕉视频直播檈mlups te Secw茅pemc First Nation confirmed the remains of 215 children who were students of the Kamloops Indian Residential School had been found using ground-penetrating radar.