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Canada

Survivors’ Secretariat denied funding to continue search for missing children, unmarked graves

The Survivors’ Secretariat, an organization leading efforts to investigate Canada’s oldest and longest-running residential school, is facing financial jeopardy after…

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Canada

Search detects 114 ‘unmarked burial features’ on former McIntosh Indian Residential School property

An investigation has uncovered a distressing discovery at the former McIntosh Indian Residential School in northwestern Ontario. The Wiikwogaming Tiinahtiisiiwin…

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Canada

Potential unmarked graves identified at B.C.’s Lejac residential school: First Nation

The Nadleh Whut’en First Nation in north-central British Columbia has made a significant discovery on the grounds of a residential…

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Politics

Residential school survivors press Ottawa for more money to find unmarked graves

A group of residential school survivors and their supporters are asking the federal government to reverse what they’re calling a…

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Canada

Search to finish her family tree led this Chicago woman to an unmarked grave in Ingersoll, Ont.

Robin Moore was searching for months to find any information about her great-great grandfather, who was an African American settler to Canada in the…

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Canada

Sask.-based lawyer welcomes Guatemalan group’s offer to support search for unmarked graves

WARNING: This story includes distressing details. A Guatemala-based forensic anthropology organization is extending its hand to Indigenous Peoples looking to potentially…

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Canada

First Nations in Yukon hope search for unmarked graves of missing children can ‘bring peace’

Adeline Webber walks up a dirt road to where children once played from the former Chooutla Indian Residential School in…

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Nova Scotia

Independent report describes 48 findings on the challenges of searching for unmarked graves

Warning: This story contains disturbing content. Issues surrounding access to and preservation of records from residential schools and former sites,…

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