Nadleh Whut’en First Nation Chief Beverly Ketlo said after almost two years of geophysical survey work, there are ‘23 markers’ of potential burial locations at Lejac Indian Residential School
that had its own cemetery since the early 1920s is now the location of potential unmarked graves, says the chief of a Fraser Lake area First Nation.
“We have information today that shows that there are likely grave sites in the location of the Lejac school,” said Ketlo. “We know there were more children there, we just didn’t know where. How many, and this is a question I ask everybody I meet, how many of the schools you attended had graveyards in the backyard?”
Peter Takacs, a ground-penetrating radar specialist with Vancouver-based GeoScan, which conducted the survey, said the technology is “not perfect,” but can be used to locate a variety of changes or readings beneath the surface.The GeoScan report tabled at the news conference said about 142,500 square metres, the equivalent of 27 football fields, were searched with ground-penetrating radar.
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