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Reuters «Alcatraz de Canadá»: la oscura historia de la escuela para niños indígenas en la que encontraron otras 160 tumbas sin identificar El internado fue abierto en 1889 y a lo largo de casi un siglo de funcionamiento decenas de niños fallecieron, muchos de ellos siendo enterrados en tumbas que nunca llevaron su nombre ni tuvieron una marca. Por BBC Mundo Publicado 18 de julio de 2021 04:07 PM ") } El internado, c atólica con financiamiento del gobierno, estaba en la isla Kuper y la población más cercana era Chemainus, a 7 kilómetros en otra isla del archipiéla...

  CHEMAINUS, B.C. -- A First Nation community on Vancouver Island says it is continuing its investigations after a newsletter circulating online said it had found more than 160 unmarked and undocumented graves at a former residential school site. In a statement, the Penelakut Tribe says the newsletter wasn't an “official” news release but was intended to inform neighbouring First Nations of the work in the community. The statement says the nation has been working since 2014 to investigate a documented list of “missing/murdered children” from the school including using ground-pene...

It says the nation is continuing to investigate and will update the public "when appropriate." The newsletter that was online earlier this week said the graves were found at the former Kuper Island Industrial School site near Chemainus, B.C There has been a series of recent discoveries using ground-penetrating radar of what are believed to be the remains of hundreds of children in unmarked graves at former residential schools in different parts of the country Eric Simons, a PhD student in anthropology at the university, has been working with the Penelakut Tribe at the site of the former r...

Howard Alexander - News Editor People pay respects to the victims of Canada's residential school system amid shoes, teddy bears, orange shirts and other tributes placed on the steps outside the legislature in Victoria, Thursday, July 1, 2021. Image Credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito July 13, 2021 - 7:00 PM CHEMAINUS, B.C. - Canadians need to make sure they don't become hardened to news about unmarked graves at residential schools after what's believed to be another discovery of undocumented remains at a Vancouver Island site, an expert and former judge says....

People pay respects to the victims of Canada's residential school system amid shoes, teddy bears, orange shirts and other tributes placed on the steps outside the legislature in Victoria, Thursday, July 1, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito CHEMAINUS, B.C. — Canadians need to make sure they don't become hardened to news about unmarked graves at residential schools after what's believed to be another discovery of undocumented remains at a Vancouver Island site, an expert and former judge says. A newsletter circulating online from the Penelakut Tribe on Vancouver Island says more than 16...