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The news follows the May 30 announcement by the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation of the discovery of 215 bodies buried on the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in Kamloops, British Columbia.
Staff Writer memara@fortfrances.com All flags have been lowered at the Civic Centre in the Town of Fort Frances since Monday in respect and memory of the children whose bodies were found buried at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C. The discovery was made on Thursday when Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation said in a statement that with the help of ground penetrating radar specialist, the stark truth of the preliminary findings came to light. This was the confirmation of the remains of 215 children, who were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School.
An abandoned Kamloops graveyard of children remind us of how little has been done even to begin the work on truth and reconciliation.
The final report from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada had a section on missing children and unmarked burials, 273 pages in length. It states: “Many, if not most, of several . . .