Hundreds of bodies found in unmarked graves at former Saskatchewan residential school The total number of graves near the former Marieval Indian Residential School is expected to be over three times higher than the 215 discovered recently in Kamloops
Author of the article: Christopher Nardi
Publishing date: Jun 23, 2021 • 1 hour ago • 4 minute read “As we heal, every Cowessess citizen has a family member in that gravesite. To know there’s some unmarked, it continues the pain,” said Cowessess First Nation Chief Cadmus Delorme, seen here in 2019. Photo by Brandon Harder/Postmedia/File
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OTTAWA – A Saskatchewan First Nation says it has made the “horrific and shocking discovery” of hundreds of unmarked graves many believed to be children near a former residential school, with a total expected to be over three times higher than the 215 discovered recently in Kamloops, B.C., according to a source briefed on the file.
Hundreds of bodies found near former residential school site at Cowessess Cowessess First Nation says it has made a horrific and shocking discovery of unmarked graves at the site of the former Marieval Indian Residential School on its lands.
Author of the article: Arthur White-Crummey, Christopher Nardi
Publishing date: Jun 23, 2021 • 48 minutes ago • 4 minute read • The Marieval Indian Residential School ran from 1899 to 1997, on what would eventually be recognized as the Cowessess First Nation, in Saskatchewan. For much of that time, the Roman Catholic Church operated the school. The Parish Church is seen in this 1934 photo. (Photo courtesy General collection of the Societe historique de Saint-Boniface) jpg
Hundreds of bodies reported found in unmarked graves at former Saskatchewan residential school The total number of graves near the former Marieval Indian Residential School is expected to be over three times higher than the 215 discovered recently in Kamloops
Author of the article: Christopher Nardi
Publishing date: Jun 23, 2021 • 1 hour ago • 4 minute read “As we heal, every Cowessess citizen has a family member in that gravesite. To know there’s some unmarked, it continues the pain,” said Cowessess First Nation Chief Cadmus Delorme, seen here in 2019. Photo by Brandon Harder /Postmedia, file
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OTTAWA – A Saskatchewan First Nation says it has made the “horrific and shocking discovery” of hundreds of unmarked graves many believed to be children near a former residential school, with a total expected to be over three times higher than the 215 discovered recently in Kamloops, B.C., according to a source briefed on the file.
Hundreds of bodies found near former residential school site in Saskatchewan Cowessess First Nation says it has made a horrific and shocking discovery of unmarked graves at the site of the former Marieval Indian Residential School on its lands.
Author of the article: Arthur White-Crummey, Christopher Nardi
Publishing date: Jun 24, 2021 • 3 hours ago • 4 minute read • REGINA, SASK : May 24, 2019 Cadmus Delorme, Chief of Cowessess First Nation stands in the Cowessess urban office on Albert Street during a news conference regarding a new project that will seek to identify and examine Autism on the First Nation. BRANDON HARDER/ Regina Leader-Post Photo by BRANDON HARDER /Regina Leader-Post