Exploring Theme: "Discoveries of unmarked graves"

APTN News: An archeologist from Akwesasne Mohawk Territory is questioning the methods being used to excavate an old hospital site by McGill University and Quebec’s public infrastructure society, or SQI. The site, the old Victoria Hospital, is being excavated and renovated as part of the New Vic Project, a joint venture between McGill and SQI to...

Request to have excavation of site stopped was denied. The old Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. Photo: APTN.  APTN News: The Canadian Press – A Quebec judge has ordered McGill University and Quebec’s infrastructure society (SQI), to comply with a deal it reached with a group of Mohawk women that outlines the search for possible...

‘Going to be a long process,’ says survivor of residential school, helping with search WARNING: This story contains distressing details. CBC News: After George E. Pachano left residential school, he swore he would never return. But decades later, the 62-year-old, who was forced to spend four years of his childhood at St. Philip’s Indian Residential...

Archeological dig at old Montreal hospital on hold after incident with security guard. A pair of shoes located by archeologists in Montreal.  APTN News: A spokesperson for the Mohawk Mothers, or Kahnistensera, says the group feels pushed aside in the search for unmarked graves on McGill University grounds. The groups said they feel pushed aside in the...

Possible unmarked graves require more security, group known as Mohawk Mothers say CBC News: Cadaver dogs have identified possible evidence of human remains on the grounds of Montreal’s old Royal Victoria Hospital, a sprawling network of now-vacant buildings, some dating back 140 years, on Mount Royal’s southern flank. The search was conducted as part of an agreement between the Kanien’kehá:ka...