Actions and Commitments: Call to Action # 75

Exploring Stakeholder: "Government of Canada"

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June 13, 2023


Ground search begins at former Chooutla school site in Yukon

As many as 42 students may have died at the former school site APTN News: A ground search for potential graves has begun at the former site of the Chooutla Indian Residential School in Carcross, Yukon. The search, which will take place during various intervals this summer, will help determine if there are possible remains...

May 5, 2023


Details of upcoming work to find graves at residential school site presented in Carcross, Yukon

Ground-penetrating radar work to be done at Chooutla school site starting next month WARNING: This story contains distressing details. CBC News: People in the community of Carcross, Yukon, received more details this week about the upcoming work to search for unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school. That work, which will be done...

March 25, 2023


Search for graves at Yukon residential school site planned for this summer

‘We will finally get some answers to questions that we’ve had in our families,’ says chair of working group WARNING: This story contains details some readers may find distressing. CBC News: The first ground search for unmarked graves at a former Yukon residential school will start this summer in Carcross.  At least 20 Indigenous children...

February 17, 2023


International Commission on Missing Persons to undertake outreach and engagement sessions with Indigenous communities on unmarked burial sites

Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada: Taking care: We recognize this news release may contain information that is difficult for many and that our efforts to honour Survivors and families may act as an unwelcome reminder for those who have suffered hardships through generations of government policies that were harmful to Indigenous Peoples. The National...

February 7, 2023


Ottawa spending $2-million for international commission to offer advice on unmarked graves

The Globe and Mail: Ottawa is spending $2 million for an international organization to provide Indigenous communities with options for identifying possible human remains buried near former residential school sites. The office of Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller said in a statement Tuesday it is signing a technical agreement with the International Commission on Missing...

October 21, 2022


First Nations, governments sign memorandum of understanding for Bringing Our Children Home initiative

Initiative searching for missing children who attended Pelican Lake Indian Residential School CBC: An initiative aimed at locating missing children who attended Pelican Lake Indian Residential School took a step forward this week, with First Nations and government signing a memorandum of understanding in Thunder Bay, Ont. The Bikiiwewinig Nindawaashishiiminaanak Initiative, or Bringing Our Children...

July 20, 2022


Government of Canada and NCTR announce National Advisory Committee on Residential Schools Missing Children and Unmarked Burials

Ottawa, ON — Unceded Traditional Territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg Nation – Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada and the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation Thousands of First Nations, Inuit and Métis children never returned home from residential schools. Many were buried in gravesites that are unrecorded, unmarked and unprotected. Today, the Honourable Marc...

June 8, 2022


Kimberly Murray appointed Special Interlocutor

CBC: Kimberly Murray, a Mohawk woman originally from Kanehsatake in Quebec, has been appointed special interlocutor to co-ordinate the government’s response to the unmarked graves that have been identified at a number of former residential school sites. Murray comes to the job with experience with this sort of work because, for the last year, she has...

June 6, 2022


Sagkeeng First Nation update

CBC: Sagkeeng First Nation’s search of former residential school site uncovers 190 radar anomalies The search of a former Manitoba residential school site has unearthed what the chief of the First Nation describes as “anomalies” that could be unmarked burial sites, though the true nature of those anomalies remains unclear. During the search, ground-penetrating radar used...

May 18, 2022


Stólō Tribal Council

St. Mary’s Residential School, All Hallows and Coqualeetza: $1,077,520 2021-24 Chemainus Valley Courier: Interviews of survivors of St. Mary’s Residential School is being undertaken by the Stólō Tribal Council, and Stólō Nation leadership has said it plans to execute ground searches at St. Mary’s and Coqualeetza, as well as the researching all historical files related...

May 17, 2022


Govt of Canada update on actions to help Indigenous communities to respond to and heal from impacts of residential schools

Crown and Indigenous Services Canada and Northern Affairs Canada : On May 16: the Honourable Marc Miller, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations; the Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Indigenous Services; the Honourable Pablo Rodriguez, Minister of Canadian Heritage; the Honourable David Lametti, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada; the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of...

May 4, 2022


Sagkeeng First Nation

Fort Alexander IRS: $610,093 Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada: Sagkeeng First Nation has undertaken work related to Fort Alexander (Pine Falls) Residential School and the search for possible burial sites located on the land. The community-led initiative has involved knowledge gathering from Elders. Field investigation work on areas related to the school site location...

April 27, 2022


Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support Funding Recipients

Government of Canada: The Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support funding launched in June 2021 to support Indigenous communities to locate missing children at Indian Residential Schools as identified in the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement. Funding is provided under the following components: National results: For full details on all 70 funding arrangement The list...

April 20, 2022


Sipekne’katik First Nation

Shubenacadie Residential School: $326,700  CIRNAC:The funding supports the “Shubenacadie Residential School Support Project for Sipekne’katik.” This funding will assist with the research, knowledge gathering, commemoration, memorialization and fieldwork that will be undertaken by the First Nation on the grounds surrounding the former Shubenacadie residential school. Sipekne’katik First Nation has already begun the difficult work. The...

March 29, 2022


Williams Lake First Nation

St. Joseph’s Mission Residential School: $2.9M Mar. 29, 2022: CTV News – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced $2.9M in funding to “continue supporting healing” for members of First Nations communities impacted by the treatment children received while attending a local residential school....

February 18, 2022


The Nisoonag (Three Canoes) Partnership

Spanish Indian Residential School $699,574 + $900K from Ontario for 2021-2024 The Nisoonag (Three Canoes) Partnership is an alliance between Mississauga First Nation (MFN), Sagamok Anishnawbek First Nation (SFN), and Serpent River First Nation (SRFN) formed to investigate the former Spanish Indian Residential School (IRS) site for unmarked children’s graves...

February 7, 2022


Grassy Narrows First Nation

TBNewswatch.com – $157,000 funding to research gravesites at the former McIntosh Residential School in Northwestern Ontario. The school, founded by Roman Catholic missionaries, was located 30 kilometres northwest of Vermilion Bay. It operated from 1925 to 1969. “We will take steps to commemorate and memorialize the children that died while attending McIntosh Residential School so that they will always...

January 27, 2022


Garden River First Nation

Jan. 27, 2022: $1,485,770 for the “The Garden River First Nations Survivor Fund” is undertaking work related to burial sites associated with Wawanosh Home for Girls, on research and knowledge gathering with Survivors, their families and Knowledge Keepers for commemoration and memorialization projects, and will document and video tape fieldwork investigations using global positioning technology....

January 24, 2022


Six Nations of the Grand River

$10,259,9753 in funding over three years The Survivors’ Secretariat at Six Nations of the Grand River and Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, announced funding through the Residential Schools Missing Children – Community Support Funding program to assist with this important work.The Survivors’ Secretariat will coordinate with Survivors and engage with communities to locate, document, map, maintain...

January 17, 2022


Kamloops Residential School

Jan. 17, 2022: CBC – The leadership of Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc hopes to identify and locate missing children believed to be buried in unmarked graves. The federal government plans to transfer more than 875,000 records through a recently signed agreement with the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR), the archival repository for all of the material collected by the...

January 7, 2022


Williams Lake First Nation

CIRNA – $1,912,460 Williams Lake First Nation will undertake work related to burial sites associated with the former St. Joseph’s Mission Residential School. The community is currently completing a preliminary investigation that includes interviews with former students and their families, an initial geophysical survey, and the compilation of archival and photographic records related to the disappearances and...

December 16, 2021


Lac Seul First Nation

Sioux Lookout Bulletin – $1M funding for Lac Seul First Nation who will engage with 33 affiliated northern Ontario communities to establish cultural and spiritual protocols in working with Survivors, intergenerational Survivors, knowledge keepers and leaders to address the location, documentation, mapping, maintenance and commemoration/memorialization of burial sites associated with the former Pelican Lake Indian...

December 15, 2021


Cowassess First Nation

$703,230 funding over three years for the community’s Gravesite Reclamation Project. Survivors, intergenerational Survivors, knowledge keepers and leaders will continue the work that has already started on researching, commemorating, locating and identifying the gravesites of missing children. During the next three years, work will progress on research, archival and statement gathering, additional fieldwork, commemorative markers,...

June 22, 2021


Federation of Sovereign Indian Nations

Saskatchewan Federation of Sovereign Indian Nations = $4.88M (16 Indian Residential Schools) Research, knowledge gathering and the initial ceremonies related to the burial sites of children who never returned from residential schools to their Indigenous communities. The funding will also help communities gather the information necessary to guide appropriate ground penetrating radar work....

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