Actions and Commitments

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

Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support Funding Recipients

April 27, 2022

Government of Canada: The Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support funding launched in June 2021 to support Indigenous communities to locate missing children at Indian Residential Schools as identified in the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement.

Funding is provided under the following components:

  • local research and knowledge gathering
  • commemoration and memorialization
  • field investigation work

National results:

  • 70 funding arrangements
  • 63 communities receiving funding support for research and knowledge gathering
  • 64 communities receiving funding support for commemoration and memorialization
  • 40 communities receiving funding for fieldwork investigation

For full details on all 70 funding arrangement The list below details funds distributed from the launch of the Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support funding in June 2021 through to April 27, 2022. click on the following link.

https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1647884354823/1647884389372#wb-auto-3