Quebec area schools closed as mark of respect for Burkina Faso dead

Four family members among Canadians killed in Burkina Faso terrorist attack.

QUEBEC — Classes are cancelled today at two Quebec City area schools where some of the six Canadian victims killed in the terrorist attack in Burkina Faso worked or used to work.

The school board announced that both Jean-de-Brebeuf and Cardinal Roy high schools would shut their classrooms Monday, and support services would be offered to staff and students affected by the tragedies.

Four of the victims, all from Quebec, were members of one family, and the other two were acquaintances.

They were among at least 28 people killed when al-Qaida linked terrorists stormed a hotel and cafe in the African country’s capital Ouagadougou late Friday.

Friends and the school board identified the Canadian victims as Yves Carrier, his wife Gladys Chamberland, their adult son Charlelie Carrier and Yves’ adult daughter Maude Carrier.

The family members, along with the two other Quebecers who were killed — Louis Chabot and Suzanne Bernier — had been on a humanitarian mission in Burkina Faso.

The school board said Maude Carrier and Chabot were both secondary school teachers. Yves Carrier was an assistant principal before his retirement, and Bernier had been an administrator at two elementary schools before she retired.

Gladys Chamberland worked for Quebec’s natural resources ministry.