The RCMP logo is seen outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police E Division headquarters in Surrey, B.C., on Friday, April 13, 2018. Mounties in Saskatchewan say they are investigating allegations someone died in 1974 at a northern Saskatchewan home where children who went to residential school lived. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
REGINA – Mounties say they are investigating allegations someone died in 1974 at a northern Saskatchewan home where children who went to residential school lived.
RCMP say they received a complaint in October that a person had died at the Timber Bay Children’s Home near Lac La Ronge, about 340 kilometres north of Saskatoon.
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Canadian police reveal decade-long Manitoba residential school inquiry
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Canadian police say they have spent over a decade investigating abuse allegations at a former residential school for indigenous children.
The government-funded Fort Alexander school in Manitoba was one of dozens of such institutions founded to forcibly assimilate indigenous children.
For years, activists and survivors have alleged systematic abuse at the school, which closed in 1970.
Police on Tuesday revealed that they had launched a criminal probe in 2011.
The Manitoba branch of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) made the rare comment about the ongoing investigation after an inquiry from a local media outlet.