Canada pledges millions to search for residential school graves

Hundreds of unmarked graves have been discovered at institutions Indigenous children were forced to attend for decades.

Warning: The story below contains details of residential schools that may be upsetting. Canada’s Indian Residential School Survivors and Family Crisis Line is available 24 hours a day at 1-866-925-4419. Canada has promised tens of millions of dollars to help Indigenous communities in their search for unmarked graves linked to the government’s decades-long residential school system, which a commission of inquiry said in 2015 amounted to “cultural genocide”. Hundreds of unmarked graves have been discovered since late May on the grounds of residential schools across Canada.