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

Exploring Theme: "Coroners' Reports"

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October 3, 2023


Co-operation needed to fill in gaps on residential school deaths, says N.W.T. coroner

Coroner’s office uncovered 6 deaths, but the data only goes back to 1967 CBC Indigenous: The N.W.T.’s chief coroner says it will take more work and some co-operation between different agencies to get a fuller picture of how many children died at residential schools in the territory. An interim report by the Senate standing committee on Indigenous peoples...

February 17, 2022


Provinces that have submitted death records

As of 2014, as stated in “Honoring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future, Summary of the Final report of the TRC (July 23, 2015) in addition to the office in British Columbia, vital statistics offices in Alberta, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Yukon, and Nunavut had responded to the Commission’s request for records for the National...

September 30, 2019


Memorial Register

CTV News – The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation revealed the names of 2,800 children who died in residential schools in a ceremony in Gatineau, Quebec. A 50-metre long blood red cloth bearing the names of each child and the schools they attended was unfurled and carried through a crowd of Indigenous children, elders...