Burial Sites

• Residential school searches: What is ground-penetrating radar?

  Kisha Supernant, director of the Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, explains how ground-penetrating radar searches work at former Indian residential schools.

  Canada

  Sep 11, 2023
  
• Excavation in Pine Creek First Nation to look for potential unmarked burial sites

  Pine Creek First Nation (Minegoziibe Anishinabe) is planning to complete an excavation of 14 possible locations of unmarked burials under the community's Catholic Church.

  Investigations

  Jul 20, 2023
  
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• Province to spend $10M more on residential school burial site searches in Ontario

  The additional $10-million funding announced Thursday in Ontario's fall economic statement brings the total spending promise to $20 million over three years.

  Canada

  Nov 4, 2021
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• B.C. government providing $12M to support First Nations investigating residential school sites

  The financial support comes after the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation announced in May that ground-penetrating radar uncovered the remains of 215 children

  Canada

  Jun 28, 2021
• ‘There’s no doubt there are other bodies’: GoFundMe launched to scan other residential school sites

  The discovery at the Kamloops school was made by using ground-penetrating radar, which can determine the depth, shape and size of something buried underground.

  Canada

  Jun 2, 2021