Current Problems: Missing Children and Burial Information (71-76)

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November 7, 2023


Senate Committee provides little pushback on Catholic representatives over residential school documents

Windspeaker.com: Archbishop Murray Chatlain of the Archdiocese of Keewatin-Le Pas, Father Velichor Abaranam Jerome, general archivist of the General House in Rome, and Father Warren Brown, representative of the OMI general administration. The Senate Committee on Indigenous Peoples may have been shocked two weeks ago when witnesses told them about the difficulties they were having in...

October 30, 2023


Cadaver dogs searching for unmarked graves at former Kenora residential school site uncover 22 ‘alerts’

The alerts in addition to 171 plausible burial sites detected at former St. Mary’s site in January Warning: This story contains distressing details.  CBC News: Wauzhushk Onigum First Nation in northwestern Ontario says cadaver dogs conducting ground searches of a former residential school site have found 22 “alerts” indicating the underground presence of historical human remains....

August 29, 2023


English River First Nation announces more findings in radar search for unmarked graves

Chief Jenny Wolverine says search has found 93 unmarked graves — 79 children and 14 infants WARNING: This article includes distressing details. CBC News: English River First Nation has found what it says are 93 unmarked graves in and around the former Beauval Indian Residential School’s cemetery, 10 more than the community announced in an initial update earlier this...

July 21, 2023


Anishinabe nation in Manitoba prepares to excavate 14 anomalies

Minegoziibe Anishinabe suspects there may be unmarked graves underneath Catholic church and site of former residential school A First Nation plans to excavate the basement of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Roman Catholic Church in northwestern Manitoba. Photo courtesy Justin Richard  Warning: This story contains details about child abuse and residential schools that may be...

June 29, 2023


Radar search at northern Alberta residential school uncovers 88 suspected graves

Research team recommends further investigation near cemetery grounds WARNING: This story contains distressing details. CBC News: Canadian Press – Sucker Creek First Nation Chief Roderick Willier remembers never feeling safe during the decade he spent at a residential school in northern Alberta. “I always had to stay on high alert when I was there,” Willier...

January 18, 2023


Residential school records needed to answer ‘hard questions’: special interlocutor

The records are important because they represent ‘a path to the truth,’ says Kimberly Murray. The fight is not over to find records that could answer “hard questions” about unmarked graves at Canada’s residential schools, including who the missing children were and how they died, said the woman appointed to work with Indigenous communities in...

June 17, 2022


Retired priest, 92, charged with assault in Manitoba residential school case

Toronto Star: A 92-year-old retired priest has been charged after a decade-long investigation into the Fort Alexander Residential School in Manitoba. Arthur Masse faces one count of indecent assault in relation to a 10-year-old girl who was a student at the school, RCMP said Friday. The alleged offence took place between 1968 and 1970 when...

March 1, 2022


Grouard IRS (St. Bernard’s IRS)

Grouard IRS (AKA – St. Bernard’s IRS – The Kapawe’no First Nation in northern Alberta announced the discovery of 169 potential unmarked graves on the former grounds of the St. Bernard’s IRS...

March 1, 2022


St. Bernard’s IRS (Grouard Mission)

Globe and Mail – The Kapawe’no First Nation in northern Alberta announced on Tuesday the discovery of 169 potential unmarked graves on the former grounds of the St. Bernard’s Indian Residential School (1894-1961), another in a growing number of school burial sites. Kapawe’no First Nation, located near High Prairie, about 350 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, worked...

February 15, 2022


Keeseekoose First Nation

Fort Pelly Residential School and St. Philip’s Residential School Feb. 15, 2022: Toronto Star – The discovery of 54 potential graves of children forced to attend two residential schools on Keeseekoose First Nation land was announced to a silent gathering of community members and media… Meanwhile, Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations...

February 15, 2022


Fort Pelly IRS and St. Philip’s IRS

Toronto Star – The discovery of 54 potential graves of children forced to attend two residential schools on Keeseekoose First Nation land was announced to a silent gathering of community members and media… Meanwhile, Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations said the Catholic Church, and others who ran the school, must...

January 26, 2022


St. Josephs’ Mission Residential School

William Lake First Nation Toronto Star – Chief Willie Sellars of the William Lake First Nation delivered preliminary results from the first phase of an investigation into St. Josephs’ Mission Residential School. 93 potential human burials have been found in an area near a historic cemetery at the school site. Current data suggest that 50...

October 18, 2021


Kamloops Indian Residential School

Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation Globe and Mail – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was publicly reprimanded by the chief of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation after a ceremony in which he paid his first respects to missing children believed to be buried at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. Ms. Casimir said the First...

September 30, 2021


Marievale Indian Residential School

Cowessess First Nation Toronto Star – Cowessess First Nation Chief Cadmus Delorme announced the discovery of 751 unmarked graves at the site of the former Marievale Indian Residential School in southeastern Saskatchewan “which operated from 1898 until 1997, and was run by the Catholic Church for most of its history”. “We will find more bodies...

July 16, 2021


Kamloops Indian Residential School

Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation Toronto Star – Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation released a report on the preliminary findings of their search of the 215 unmarked graves: Revising the initial estimate to 200 “targets of interest” – probable graves Calling on the federal government to help identify any remains in the unmarked graves Demanding...

July 13, 2021


Kuper Island Indian Residential School

Penelakut First Nation Toronto Star – Penelakut Tribe Chief Joan Brown “has told surrounding First Nations that it has found the unmarked graves of 160 or more people on the grounds of the former residential school”. Kuper Island School on Penelakut Island was operated by the Catholic Church until 1969. Outbreaks of deadly disease were...

June 30, 2021


St. Eugene Mission School

Ktunaxa Nation, community of Aq’am Toronto Star – Chief Jason Louie of The Lower Kootenay Band announced that they had discovered “182 sets of human remains in unmarked graves…flagged near the location of a former residential school – St. Eugene Mission School – in Cranbrook, B.C…from the member bands of Ktunaxa nation, and neighbouring First...

June 26, 2021


Marievale Indian Residential School

Cowessess First Nation Toronto Star – Chief Cadmus Delorme said the First Nation has since identified about 300 unmarked graves. Not all were believed to belong to children. Catholic Church parishioners are thought to have been buried there, as well as members of neighbouring communities. The First Nation worked with historical records from the Roman...

June 6, 2021


Kamloops Indian Residential School

Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation Toronto Star – The Missionary of Oblates of Mary Immaculate “says it will disclose all historical documents in its possession… They operated 48 schools in Canada, including the Marieval IRS and the Kamloops IRS…In the statement, the Oblates said the work is not complete because of complications with provincial and...

June 6, 2021


Missionary Oblates commit to handing over residential school records

Toronto Star – The Missionary of Oblates of Mary Immaculate “says it will disclose all historical documents in its possession… They operated 48 schools in Canada, including the Marieval IRS and the Kamloops IRS…In the statement, the Oblates said the work is not complete because of complications with provincial and national privacy laws....

June 5, 2021


Kamloops Indian Residential School

Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation Toronto Star – The federal government, so far, has refused to legally compel the Catholic Church to release all documents relating the residential school system. The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate who operated the Kamloops Residential School “have yet to release any records about the Kamloops school. The Catholic order,...

June 5, 2021


Resistance of Missionary Oblates to release residential school records

Toronto Star – The federal government, so far, has refused to legally compel the Catholic Church to release all documents relating the residential school system. The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate who operated the Kamloops Residential School “have yet to release any records about the Kamloops school. The Catholic order, which ran about 47% of...

June 3, 2021


Kamloops Indian Residential School

Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation Murray Sinclair, who led the Truth and Reconciliation Commission “called for an independent investigation of the broader question of unmarked sites across the country and demanded it not be conducted under the auspices of the federal government.”...

June 2, 2021


Kamloops Indian Residential School

Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) and the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC) at UBC – NCTR and IRSHDC re calling on the federal government to work in collaboration with residential school Survivors and Indigenous governments to establish a national framework for investigation and protection of...

June 1, 2021


Muskowekwan Indian Residential School

CTV News – In 2018 and 2019, the First Nation worked with the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Alberta to use ground-penetrating radar to find unmarked or unidentified graves of children who attended the school. Through that process, along with water line construction done in the 1990’s, the First Nation has identified at...

June 1, 2021


Kamloops Indian Residential School

Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation Toronto Star – In 2009 – when Conservatives were in power – there had been a request for $1.5 million, which would have been used to help locate gravesites, among other things. The request was denied. The landmark Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s report on the legacy of the residential school...

May 28, 2021


Kamloops Indian Residential School

Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation Toronto Star – The bodies of 215 Indigenous children were discovered in unmarked graves on the grounds of the former Kamloops Residential School located in the territory of Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation. The Truth and Reconciliation records the death of 51 children dying at the Kamloops Residential School between...

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