On 27 May, the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation in Kamloops, B.C., reported the discovery of more than 200 remains of children at the site of what once was Canada’s largest residential school. The institution operated from 1890 to 1969, mostly under a Catholic order called the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. The federal government then took over and ran it as a day school until it closed in 1978. The recent discovery was made after a government grant allowed the nation to pay for ground-penetrati
Source: UN calls for investigations after mass graves discovered at former residential schools
