Gov. Gen. Mary Simon placed tobacco Wednesday on the graves of some of the people who died in a stabbing rampage on the James Smith Cree Nation earlier this month.
She spent about an hour at St. Stephen's Church and cemetery, where most of the people who were killed from the community northeast of Saskatoon are buried.
A spokesperson from the governor general's office has said she was invited to the First Nation by Chief Wally Burns.Simon, along with Burns and other local leaders, spent about two to three minutes at each grave, where the flowers were still fresh. Leaving the church grounds, Simon stopped for 10 minutes at a ditch where Earl Burns died in his school bus that rolled off the road after he was attacked. The retired military veteran was the community's school bus driver.
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