Actions and Commitments

Call to Action # 75: Missing Children and Burial Information (71-76)

Funding for ‘identification, investigation, protection and commemoration’ of residential school burial sites

June 21, 2021

Toronto Star – Ontario government “has committed $10M over the next three years on the ‘identification, investigation, protection and commemoration’ of residential school burial sites across the province…The TRC working group on missing children and unmarked burials identified 12 residential school burial sites ‘with varying degrees of certainty’ before completing their work in 2015. The TRC “had determined that at least 3,200 children died in residential schools, including 426 in Ontario. In nearly a third of the deaths, the name of the child wasn’t recorded; nearly half did not list a cause of death. (Since 2015 the National Centre for truth and reconciliation ha added 980 names to its memorial register, and its work is ongoing.

  • Chapleau
  • Fort Albany
  • Fort Francis
  • Fort William
  • Kenora
  • MacIntosh
  • Moose Factory
  • Sault Ste. Marie (2)
  • Spanish (2)