IQALUIT — Pope Francis makes a brief visit to the Arctic territory of Nunavut on Friday, the last stop in his six\u002Dday visit to Canada to apologize to…
Francis will meet with indigenous representatives from eastern Canada in Quebec City on Friday morning before flying to Iqaluit, Nunavut’s capital.
In Nunavut, an Arctic territory Canada created in 1999 for the Inuit people, the Pope will meet privately with residential school survivors in an elementary school during a 2-1/2-hour stop. More than 150,000 indigenous children were separated from their families and brought to residential schools, which operated between 1870 and 1996.
After meeting with school survivors, Francis will watch a public program featuring Inuit traditions such as throat singing and drum dancing, and deliver his last formal remarks on the trip.Article contentThe pope on Monday traveled to the Alberta town of Maskwacis, the site of two former schools, and issued a historic apology that called the Church’s role in the schools, and the forced cultural assimilation they attempted, a “deplorable evil” and “disastrous error.
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