Residential School Deaths

• First Nation in B.C. says 158 children died at three residential school sites, hospital

  St. Mary's residential school opened in 1863. The school was relocated in 1882 and a new school was built in 1933. It closed in 1984.

  Canada

  Sep 21, 2023
  
• Residential school records, previously withheld, to be released within 30 days: Miller

  The government will also review other residential school records it has withheld, the minister said, which may in fact be able to be released.

  Canada

  Dec 6, 2021
  
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• Over 160 graves found at former residential school on B.C. island, First Nation says

  The Penelakut Tribe issued a letter on Thursday saying the graves were found on the grounds of the former Kuper Island Indian Industrial School on Penelakut Island.

  Canada

  Jul 13, 2021
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• People complicit in Canada’s residential school deaths should be charged, group says

  The demands, made by the Native Women's Association of Canada, follow the discovery of an estimated 751 unmarked graves at the Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan.

  Canada

  Jun 24, 2021
• Ottawa has millions still to spend on missing children and cemetery searches

  The federal government has more than $27 million set aside for Indigenous groups who wish to search for cemeteries of Indigenous children who died at residential schools.

  Canada

  Jun 1, 2021