Standing on slush under street lights in front of a charred and boarded-up home where a fire claimed the lives of four young children, a large crowd gathered in a northern Manitoba city to mourn the loss and comfort the grieving family.
Many of those at Saturday night’s vigil in Thompson brought their children and could be seen in videos that were posted to social media walking with them to a makeshift memorial of stuffed animals, candles, helium-filled balloons and flowers, pausing at the pile to add their own contributions.
“We’ve lost four little children who had so much potential to help make a difference in our society. Unfortunately, God took them home,” Shirley Robinson, a relative of the family and a councillor from Pimicikamak Cree Nation, told the crowd, noting the children’s mother and father were present at the vigil….