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VANCOUVER - The B.C. government says it will provide immediate funding to 21 First Nation communities to help with searches for human remains at former residential schools or hospitals.
A rock with the message Every Child Matters painted on it sits at a memorial outside the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, in Kamloops, B.C., on Thursday, July 15, 2021. The B.C. government says it will fund 21 First Nation communities where there were residential schools or former hospitals. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Hina Alam
A rock with the message Every Child Matters painted on it sits at a memorial outside the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, in Kamloops, B.C., on Thursday, July 15, 2021. The B.C. government says it will fund 21 First Nation communities where there were residential schools or former hospitals. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck July 20, 2021 - 4:59 PM
VANCOUVER - The B.C. government says it will provide immediate funding to 21 First Nation communities to help with searches for human remains at former residential schools or hospitals.
Murray Rankin, the minister of Indigenous relations and reconciliation, said on Tuesday that each community can receive up to $475,000 as it carries out searches, planning, technical work and archival research, while also engaging with elders, survivors and other First Nations that have an interest in an area.
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Publishing date: Jul 20, 2021 • 7 hours ago • 4 minute read • Shoes, flowers, and stuffed animals sit outside the former Kamloops Indian Residential School where flowers and cards have been left as part of a growing makeshift memorial to honour the 215 children whose remains have been discovered buried near the facility in Kamloops. Photo by COLE BURSTON /AFP via Getty Images
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B.C. provides funding to First Nation communities for residential school searches
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A rock with the message Every Child Matters painted on it sits at a memorial outside the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, in Kamloops, B.C., on Thursday, July 15, 2021. The B.C. government says it will fund 21 First Nation communities where there were residential schools or former hospitals. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
VANCOUVER – The B.C. government says it will provide immediate funding to 21 First Nation communities to help with searches for human remains at former residential schools or hospitals.
Murray Rankin, the minister of Indigenous relations and reconciliation, says each community can receive up to $475,000 for every site as it carries out searches, planning, technical work and archival research, while also engaging with elders, survivors and other First Nations that have an interest in an area.