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

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April 23, 2024


Search for unmarked graves starts at 2 former dormitories in Whitehorse

Yukon Hall and Courdert Hall operated in the 1960s and 70s APTN News: A ground search for potential unmarked graves has begun at the sites of two former dormitories in Whitehorse used to house Indigenous students. The search is taking place at the former sites of Yukon Hall and Coudert Hall in Whitehorse’s Riverdale neighborhood....

September 26, 2023


15 ‘potential’ gravesites found near former Yukon residential school

15 possible graves at residential school in Yukon Toronto Star: The Canadian Press – CARCROSS, Yukon – Yukon First Nation elder Sandra Johnson says the discovery of 15 potential graves near the site of a former residential school has “uncovered long-buried wounds.”  Johnson spoke Tuesday at the release of an investigation into unmarked graves and...

June 18, 2023


First Nations in Yukon hope search for unmarked graves of missing children can ‘bring peace’

Ground-penetrating radar being used to collect data from former residential school sites CBC News: Adeline Webber walks up a dirt path to the site where children who attended the former Chooutla Indian Residential School in Carcross, Yukon, once played. “I’m thinking about my brother,” she admits. A brother she never met. Albert Jackson died in 1942,...

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