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Remains of 182 People Found Near Former Cranbrook Residential School

Another Indigenous community is reporting remains found near a former residential school.

The Lower Kootenay Band says the remains of 182 people were found near a former residential school in Cranbrook, B.C.

The community of Aq'am, a member of the Ktunaxa Nation, conducted a search in 2020 near the former St. Eugene's Mission School. 

The search included the use of ground-penetrating radar. 

The findings suggest the graves were about a metre deep. 

This comes after the recent discovery of two other unmarked burial sites in Canada - one in Kamloops, B.C at the end of May and the other in Saskatchewan earlier this month. 

St. Eugene's Mission School was operational between 1912 and the early 1970s. 
 

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