Cruelty of Canada’s residential schools ‘unimaginable’, governor general says

Mary Simon, first Indigenous person to hold post, attends service at Kamloops school to honor thousands of children who died

Canada's governor general has described the country's residential schools as places of unimaginable cruelty, in a eulogy to honour the thousands of Indigenous children who died while attending the institutions.

Today, we make ourselves heard across the country. Although it is hard, we are telling Canadians and the world about our wounds and pain," Mary Simon, the Queen's representative in Canada, told hundreds gathered on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian residential school.