Mi’kmaq elder to resume search for unmarked graves at former N.S. residential school, after ground-penetrating radar was used in April and December of last year
A native flag representing the Warrior Society marks the location of the former Shubenacadie Residential School in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, in 2008.in the Maritimes says the search will continue for unmarked graves at the site north of Halifax.
Bernard says she felt devastated when she learned last week about the 215 unmarked burial sites found at a formerMi'kmaq girls in sewing class at the Roman Catholic-run Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in 1929.She says there is an official list of 16 students who died while attending the school in Shubenacadie, but she says survivors have come forward in the past three years to provide names of more missing children.
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