It was announced that the remains of “numerous” children’s bodies were found at the site of a boarding school in the Canadian province of Alberta. Speaking on behalf of the Saddle Lake Cree Nation indigenous community in eastern Alberta, Eric Large has been in St. He said they were investigating the site of the Blue Quills Boarding School near the city of St. Paul and found the remains of numerous children’s bodies.
Describing the school in question, where he once stayed, as “one of the scariest boarding schools in Canada”, Large stated that the number of child corpses that have not entered the official records may be higher than expected.
MORE THAN 200 BODY REMAINS HAVE BEEN FOUND SO FAR
While pointing out that they have found the remains of more than 200 children’s bodies with their work so far, but there may be more remains in the region and that they should be investigated, Large asked the federal government for surface scanning radars and rehabilitation support for the local people.
The Indigenous community cemetery is located near the site of the Blue Quills Boarding Church School, Large said, adding that since 2004, while new burials have been excavated at the community cemetery, numerous child body remains have been accidentally found.
Large, St. Paul’s Diocese showed that 212 students died at the school between 1898 and 1931, but federal government records passed that number as 25 students.
BODY OF CHILDREN WRAPPED IN WHITE CLOTHES
Stating that the local people discovered a mass grave in the same area in 2004, a large number of children wrapped in white cloths were thought to have died in the typhoid epidemic, and they were reburied like the remains of many children’s bodies found at that time, Large said, “The number of missing children is too high. School, violence, disease, hunger. “He was grappling with abuse and death,” he said.
Saying that the indigenous community had 12,000 members at the time and that four or five children from each family were forcibly taken, Large said, “We are working to piece together a complex puzzle about our missing children who never came home.”
THE FIRST GRAVES WERE DISCOVERED IN MAY 2021
Unregistered child graves in the garden of the old boarding church school in Canada came to the fore for the first time on May 29, 2021, with the remains of 215 children found in the garden of the school in Kamloops, British Columbia province.
On June 24, 2021, graves containing the remains of 751 children’s bodies, which were not officially recorded, were discovered in the garden of the Marieval Boarding School in Saskatchewan.
In the province of British Columbia, the former St. On June 30, 2021, undeclared graves containing the remains of 182 children were discovered near the Eugene Mission School.
The indigenous tribe of Penelakut, one of the Southern Gulf Islands of the same state, also announced on July 12, 2021 that more than 160 “undocumented and unmarked” graves were found in the area belonging to the Kuper Boarding School.
St. in the Williams Lake First Nation region of British Columbia. The teams, which scanned 14 hectares of the 470-hectare area of the Joseph’s Mission Boarding Church School with surface radar, announced that 93 new graves had been discovered.
In the studies carried out in the Keeseekose First Nation region of Saskatchewan province, 42 in the Fort Pelly Boarding Church School region, St. 12 unnamed graves were found in the area of Philip’s Boarding School.
As a result of the searches conducted in 4 different regions of the Gordon’s Boarding Church School in the province of Saskatchewan in Canada, 14 burial places that are not in the official records were identified.
THE BIGGEST CHILD ABUSE IN CANADA HISTORY
The first of the church boarding schools, considered “the site of the greatest child abuse in Canadian history”, opened in the early 1880s and the last was closed in 1996.
In these schools, where more than 150,000 local children were forcibly taken from their families and settled, most of the children were abused by priests, nuns and other teachers with physical, sexual and psychological violence.
In addition to the abuses recorded by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was established in the country in 2010, it was determined that medical experiments were carried out on some children.
The Canadian Federal Government has formally apologized to the victims for what happened at the boarding church schools, where thousands of children died as a result of starvation, cold and disease. (AA)