North Bay’s hockey community and the community at large held a candlelight vigil last night outside Memorial Gardens.
Just two days after the horrific collision between the Humboldt Broncos’ team bus and a semi-trailer on a Saskatchewan highway, it seems much of the country was doing the same. The gathering in North Bay was scheduled so that those outside the Gardens could then head home to watch the planned vigil in Humboldt on television.
Help has come in many forms, as a GoFundMe campaign had raised in excess of $4 million as of Sunday evening, in support of the victims and their families.
Hundreds clad in hockey jerseys assembled outside the arena to show solidarity with a Canadian community in mourning for the loss of so many of its own.
The candlelight vigil was organized by prominent members of the North Bay hockey community to show Humboldt, Saskatchewan that the extended hockey family knows no borders.
It was a show of respect, of coming together to offer condolences to a community torn apart by the deaths of 15 from their hockey organization, with more than a dozen still in the hospital, some with serious injuries.
A book of condolences has been signed by many in attendance and it will be forwarded to Humboldt.
