As people stay home amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, a virtual vigil will be held to honour the victims of Canada’s deadliest mass shooting that took place in rural Nova Scotia over the weekend.

People will be able to watch the online memorial for the victims over Facebook or YouTube at 7 p.m. AST Friday.

The two-hour vigil will be streamed through the Facebook group Colchester — Supporting our Communities.

The shooting rampage claimed the lives of at least 23 victims, including an RCMP officer, a 17-year-old girl, a teacher and a nurse, leaving many people mourning in rural Nova Scotia and all across Canada.

“In a small community like ours, everybody knows one another,” said Tory Phinney, a co-organizer of the vigil who lives in Bass River in Colchester County, N.S., close to where much of the weekend’s horrors occurred.

“A time like this is when we would be together at a church, at a community hall, at a fire hall, delivering food and well wishes and joining together in groups, and we can’t do that. But we do have to come together.”

The Colchester — Supporting our Communities Facebook group was set up to allow people to come together, share their experiences and express their emotions in a time where people can’t physically gather together due to safety measures enacted to curb the spread of COVID-19.

— With files from Global News’ Graeme Benjamin, Rachael D’Amore and Olivia Bowden

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