A ground search begins at former residential school in Brantford, Ont. The search will cover about 200 hectares surrounding the Mohawk Institute. Two ground penetrating radar machines are being used to conduct grid searches around the school
The search will cover about 200 hectares surrounding the former Mohawk Institute.
The Survivors’ Secretariat of the Six Nations of the Grand River says the first phase of the search will focus on the lands where the school building stands.Members of the First Nation and its police service members have been trained on using the radar machines and will work together to conduct the search., B.C., announced that ground-penetrating radar had detected what are believed to be the remains of 215 Indigenous children in unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school.
Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan revealed a similar finding of more than 700 unmarked graves a month later. Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives government recently announced a $10 million top-up to the initial $10 million it pledged in June for investigations into unmarked graves. The expert who used ground-penetrating radar at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School says there are likely more unmarked graves in the area with less than two acres of the 160-acre site surveyed. Sarah Beaulieu of the University of the Fraser Valley spoke at a news conference where the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation also called for the release of attendance records from the school.This content appears as provided to The Globe by the originating wire service.