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 and chiefs, residential school survivors and others. Ry Moran NCTR Director, says an additional 1,600 also died but remain unnamed. There were also many hundred who simply vanished, undocumented in any records so far uncovered. (Toronto Star).

In total, 4,037 Indigenous children are listed in the Memorial Register:

• 1,953: positively identified
• 365: additional names added to memorial register after additional investigation
• 477: under investigation
• 1,242: known to have passed away but whose names are not yet known