A Voice from the Eastern Door

Ceremony held for 8 children who died in 1954 fire

In 1954, eight siblings between the ages of 1 and 15 died in an Akwesasne fire. The children of Paul and Cecelia Cree had been sleeping when a fire erupted in their Cree Road-Phillips Road home. The tragedy is remembered to this day, and on the 57th...

 

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