Volume 4 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's report is titled "Missing Children and Unmarked Burials". Published in 2015, it's 266 pages long, with testimony from residential school survivors.
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archives.nctr.ca/NCTR-EDU-003-0… 1/4
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It includes accounts of people who remember seeing their friend one day, and then them being gone the next. Kids were suddenly disappearing from schools, and their families, who often lived hours away, would have no idea what had happened. 2/4
The children were forcibly removed from their communities and taken to a residential school by an Indian Agent; when the summer break came, some of the kids never returned to their homes, without any explanation.
Well, now we know why. 3/4
Well, now we know why. 3/4
Kamloops, BC - 215 dead Indigenous children
Brandon, MB - 104
Lestock, SK - 35
Regina, SK - 38
That's just four residential schools that we know of so far; Canada had 139. 4/4
Brandon, MB - 104
Lestock, SK - 35
Regina, SK - 38
That's just four residential schools that we know of so far; Canada had 139. 4/4
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