Search for unmarked graves at former Mount Elgin Residential School to start in fall
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Chippewas of the Thames First Nation has announced plans to search the grounds of the former Mount Elgin Residential School this fall.
On the inaugural National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Chippewa of the Thames First Nation has announced plans to search the grounds of the former Mount Elgin Residential School in southwestern Ontario this fall.
In May, the remains of 215 children were found buried in unmarked graves on the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia.
In the weeks and months that followed, several other Fire Nations across Canada reported the uncovering of more than 1,300 unmarked graves on the grounds of former residential schools.
The initial discovery at Kamloops led to calls for investigations on the grounds of all residential school sites across the county.
In a video posted online, Kelly Riley, the treaty research co-ordinator at Chippewa of the Thames First Nation, told viewers the first step is research to find out who the students were and if there is the potential for unmarked graves.
“It has been 80 years since this school was in operation. The First Nations out west, such as Kamloops, the school was still standing, and pretty much everyone knew where the unmarked burial sites were,” said Riley.
“We have a very difficult task in that we have very few survivors of Mount Elgin Residential School.”
Sept. 30 marks National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a new statutory holiday introduced by the Canadian government, drawn from one of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls To Action.
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