Where unmarked graves have been found at Canada's residential schools

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More than 1,800 confirmed or suspected unmarked graves have been identified so far at former residential school sites in Canada, much of them discovered this year.

Earlier this week, Star Blanket Cree Nation in Saskatchewan began its search for unmarked graves around the former Qu'Appelle Industrial Residential School.

Approximately 150,000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit children were separated from their families and forced to attend the boarding schools from the late 1800s to 1996, with the goal replacing Indigenous languages and culture with English and Christian beliefs. Ground-penetrating radar was used in the 1990s to locate the cemetery. The same technology was used in Kamloops and has since been adopted by other communities conducting searches for unmarked graves.noted that a community member named Albert Lafferty initiated research into the cemetery in 1992 and concluded that one, located close to the school, had been in use until 1929 when it was abandoned to be used as a potato field.on the grounds of a former residential school. St.

The chief also said there were contemporaneous reports for decades of children dying or disappearing from St. Joseph's Mission, but that those reports were largely ignored.

 

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Time for Justin to take another vacation so he doesn't have to deal with anything to do for the injustice committed against Indigenous children. Oh wait no time for vacation he is too busy sending our money to the world.

It sure looks like a graveyard.

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