Prince Albert’s executive committee will receive an update Tuesday on Passage Home, a memorial sculpture and healing park taking shape along River Street near the Sisters in Spirit monument.

The project, led by Saulteaux Gordon First Nation artist Mary Longman, is dedicated to Indigenous children who died away from home in residential schools, day schools, and the Sixties Scoop, and to the survivors and families who continue to heal.

The sculpture, based on the form of a traditional travois carrier once pulled by dogs and horses on the Plains, will rest on a boulder facing the North Saskatchewan River. The surrounding park includes winding brick pathways, custom benches with the phrase “Give children roots, love, and wings,” sage plantings, and maple trees.

Coun. Daniel Brown said the p

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