HSN pathologist keen to help with study of Kamloops remains
Author of the article: Mary Katherine Keown
Publishing date: Jun 08, 2021  â¢Â 4 hours ago  â¢Â 5 minute read  â¢Â Dr. Kona Williams, a forensic pathologist at Health Sciences North, wants to play a role in identifying the remains of 215 Indigenous children who were found recently at a former residential school near Kamloops, BC. She is the daughter of a Cree father himself a survivor of the residential school system and a Mohawk mother.
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Dr. Kona Williams says she has been preparing for this undertaking her whole life.
Williams, a Sudbury-based forensic pathologist working at Health Sciences North, hopes she has a chance to contribute to what could be one of the countryâs most historic reunification programs.
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Dr. Michael Pollanen has helped investigate the graves of missing people in a grim catalogue of past and present conflict zones, from Cambodia to Iraq and the Central African Republic.
But Ontarioâs chief forensic pathologist never thought that such a project â where remains are unearthed and probed for clues to their identity and demise â might be necessary in Canada.
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Then came the discovery of what appear to be the unmarked graves of 215 Indigenous children at a B.C. residential school.