B.C. helps fund searches for Indigenous remains
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A rock with the message Every Child Matters painted on it sits at a memorial outside the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, in Kamloops, B.C., on Thursday, July 15, 2021. The B.C. government says it will fund 21 First Nation communities where there were residential schools or former hospitals. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
VANCOUVER – The B.C. government says it will provide immediate funding to 21 First Nation communities to help with searches for human remains at former residential schools or hospitals.
Murray Rankin, the minister of Indigenous relations and reconciliation, said on Tuesday that each community can receive up to $475,000 as it carries out searches, planning, technical work and archival research, while also engaging with elders, survivors and other First Nations that have an interest in an area.
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