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A residential school was never established in New Brunswick, but the province was home to several institutions with the same objective to assimilate Indigenous children into settler culture.
A residential school was never established in the province, but it was home to several institutions with the same objective to assimilate Indigenous children into settler culture.
SHUBENACADIE, N.S. Archaeologists will begin to investigate the former Shubenacadie Residential school grounds Saturday to explore whether there is any burial evidence on site. Saint Mary’s University Associate Professor Jonathan Fowler will work with Roger Lewis, the Mi’kmaq cultural heritage curator for the Nova Scotia Museum, as a co-investigator. Fowler said the work is expected to take weeks and will rely on small teams using a variety of technologies including drones, ground-penetrating radar, magnetics, historical air photographs and lidar. We’re going to create a historical map of that hill and we are going to map every possible feature caused by human intervention on that hill from modern times right back through to could be thousands of years, Fowler said.
Community members from Sipekne'katik First Nation, including students, attended a sacred fire on Wednesday to honour the 215 children whose remains were found at a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.