More unmarked residential school graves discovered in Canada

Penelakut Tribe in British Columbia says it found more than 160 unmarked graves in latest such discovery since May.

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. More than 160 “undocumented and unmarked graves” have been discovered at the site of a former residential school on Canada’s west coast, an Indigenous community has announced, as the number of graves linked to the forced-assimilation institutions continues to rise. The Penelakut Tribe said in a statement shared on social media that the graves were found in their territory, where the Kuper Island Industrial School operated between 1890 and 1975.