Dozens of shoes commemorate Indigenous children who never came home

Dozens of children's shoes lined the front of the stage on Parliament Hill on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to commemorate the children who never came home.

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Marsha Wabie arrived on Parliament Hill on Tuesday with a pair of light-tan deerskin moccasins no bigger than the size of her outstretched hand. Article content

As she quietly placed them alongside dozens of other children’s shoes lined up in front of the stage ahead of the Remembering the Children event for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation , it was all she could do not to cry. Article content Article content

“It hurts knowing that all these children didn’t come home,” said Wabie, a member of Timiskaming First Nation in Quebec. “It’s really emotional. I’m just trying to hold it back here.”