Global News published this video item, entitled “Canada residential schools: BC artist to carve monument for lost children in Kamloops” – below is their description.
As pain remains fresh for the more than 200 unmarked graves found at the former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.
Now there are plans to carve a permanent monument, to honour the memory of the lost Indigenous children there.
Secwépemc artist D’Arcy Basil has been tasked with creating the touching tribute, which will involve transforming an 1,100 kilogram jade boulder that will stand the test of time.
Julia Foy spoke to him about the vision that’s inspiring him to work on it.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.