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Four churches have so far burned to the ground during the last few days, two of them last Monday on National Indigenous People's Day. Many in the community are Catholic Church members and are very upset about the blazes.
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It is suspected that the fires are due to a feeling of revenge for the many years of child abuse in these schools, although very few of these boarding
schools were run by Catholic orders but almost all were public schools and all of them were under government supervision.
British Columbia, June 27.– Two more Catholic churches burned down in indigenous communities in western Canada early on Saturday.
The fires at St Ann's Church and the Chopaka Church began within an hour of each other in British Columbia.
Officers said both buildings were completely destroyed, and they were treating the fires as "suspicious".
Last Monday two other Catholic churches in the province were destroyed in fires, as Canada marked National Indigenous People's Day.
"The investigations into the previous fires and these two new fires are ongoing with no arrests or charges," Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sgt Jason Bayda said ...
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