The victims of a tragic aircraft crash greater than 50 years in the past are being remembered on the web site of the incident in St. James.
On June 24, 1972, a aircraft taking eight college students house to Bunibonibee Cree Nation (then often called Oxford Home) for the summer season, from residential faculties in Portage la Prairie and Stonewall, crashed in a vacant lot on Linwood Street in Winnipeg.
There have been no survivors.
On Wednesday, town — together with Bunibonibee members and representatives of the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada, in addition to the one dwelling mother or father of a scholar killed within the incident — unveiled a monument to the victims.
“It will be important we bear in mind the tragic lack of these younger lives and the deep affect it has had on the households, the Bunibonibee Cree Nation, and all these linked to this tragedy,” Winnipeg Mayor Scott Gillingham stated.
“This monument will honour their reminiscence and assist guarantee their tales are usually not forgotten as we proceed our shared journey towards therapeutic and reconciliation.”
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The monument, which has been put in close to the intersection of Linwood and Silver Avenue, alongside the Yellow Ribbon Greenway Path, was initiated by a request from the aviation museum, earlier than eventual approval from metropolis council.
“The devastating aircraft crash that claimed the lives of younger folks from our Nation is perpetually etched in our hearts and minds,” stated present Bunibonibee Chief Richard Hart, who participated within the unveiling.
“Significantly heartbreaking is that we are going to by no means understand how enormously these younger folks may’ve impacted our world in the event that they had been nonetheless with us at present.
“The households and our group hope the everlasting memorial will function a reminder to everybody that these younger persons are liked and can by no means be forgotten.”
Hart instructed 680 CJOB earlier this 12 months {that a} comparable monument had been erected in Portage la Prairie, on the web site of one of many residential faculties the scholars attended, and that the group itself commemorates the tragedy yearly.
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