I recommend you read/skim through the article, but these paragraphs felt especially important:

Grief at this magnitude is crushing anywhere, but especially in a place so little. The numbers of dead leave a different-sized hole in the social architecture of a place where everyone knows where everyone lives. The people of Tumbler Ridge will see their streets differently now—which road has a house that is home to someone who has died or was injured or at school that day. “I will know every victim,” Mayor Darryl Krakowka told the CBC in those early hours when Tumbler Ridge waited to find out the names of the casualties.

But the way that a community responds to tragedy is a key part of their story. In La Loche, the lasting effect of the 2016 massacre is not stigma but something greater. It’s a complicated legacy: layers of sadness and anger but also love and resilience. People have “a lot of pride in their community and in the strength that it did have, even in the face of these incredibly hard things,” said Dungavell.

That’s why it matters that the mayors and residents of places like La Loche and Portapique send words of support to Tumbler Ridge. And that’s why it matters that the outpouring of support from Canadians persists long after the cameras have left. New schools will need building, and stable health care supports will be needed for years, Dungavell said.

“Right now, we’re talking about survival, but the hard work of figuring out ‘how this fits into our life story’ is going to happen in the next months and years,” she said.

Love and beauty exist after horror. That’s part of the story here, and in La Loche, Portapique, and Humboldt. In the years to come, there will still be mining and bears, a geopark, dinosaur fossils, and mountain vistas in Tumbler Ridge. But they will always look a little different.