36 Unmarked Graves at Former Residential School Sites

Seneca College

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission made it clear that there are numerous children who were taken from their families to attend residential schools who were never heard from again, and that it is highly likely that many of these children are in unmarked graves on properties near former residential schools. Currently many First Nations are in the painful process of uncovering the locations of some of these grave sites. The first of these discovers was at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School on the traditional territory of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc people.

Read 215 Innocent Children an essay by Stephanie Scott, Executive Director at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.

memorial of numerous children's shoes representing the 215 215 children whose remains were found in a residential school
Kamloops Residential School Memorial, May 30th 2021 by GoToVan. CC-BY 2.0.

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