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Posted: Jun 04, 2021 1:49 PM AT | Last Updated: June 4
Children s shoes are shown on the steps of the church at the Sipekne katik First Nation.(CBC)
A renewed search on the grounds of the former residential school in Shubenacadie, N.S., will begin this weekend.
The search will be led by a Saint Mary s University archeologist and Mi kmaw ethnologist and curator from the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History.
Many community members have called for a search after evidence of at least 215 bodies of children was discovered at the site of a residential school in Kamloops, B.C.
Sipekne katik First Nation announced the search at Shubenacadie would include the use of ground-penetrating radar, which was the method used in Kamloops.
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