MONTREAL — As Pope Francis’s visit to Canada shifts east, Indigenous leaders say their communities deserve to hear him on Quebec soil beg forgiveness for the…
An apology from the pope in front of an audience in Quebec would be a meaningful gesture after the pontiff apologized Monday on the grounds of the former Ermineskin Indian Residential School at Maskwacis, Alta., said Mandy Gull-Masty, grand chief of the Cree Nation.
Gull-Masty was part of the Canadian Indigenous delegation that went to the Vatican earlier this year to hear Pope Francis apologize for residential schools and commit to delivering an apology in Canada. The Cree Nation of Chisasibi, meanwhile, said it won’t send an official delegation to the pope’s events in Quebec.
Those five schools — the first residential schools in Quebec — housed First Nations children from the local Cree community and other nations in Quebec and Ontario. House has called on the Anglican and Catholic churches, which operated residential schools in Fort George until 1975 and 1981, respectively, to hand over any records that would help in the searches.
During three days in Quebec City and the surrounding area, Pope Francis is expected to twice use the popemobile to greet people — once after his arrival to the province on Wednesday and again ahead of Thursday’s mass at the shrine of Ste-Anne-de-Beaupre. “Survivors, no matter who and where, are wanting to hear the apology,” Picard said. “So, I would say that’s something on the minds of survivors in Quebec City as well.”
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