Three First Nations in Metro Vancouver are taking the first steps toward finding out what happened to children who died — or vanished — while attending the St. Paul’s Indian Residential School in North Vancouver.
The Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam nations announced the Indigenous-led plan this morning.
More than two-thousand children are known to have attended the school between 1899 and 1959 and some deaths have been recorded but Indigenous leaders say records are incomplete.
The plan includes interviewing survivors who attended the school, gathering all records related to its history with the Catholic Church and doing a remote sensing search for bodies possibly buried on the former school grounds.
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