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August 2010_june_july_2009.qxd 30/08/2010 4:00 PM Page 34 34 28 Mass graves of Indian Children in Canada 28 Mass graves of Indian and Little Mountain school, also possibly school (1911-1973). Burials of children in Children in Canada... adjacent to former school-hospital building. mound near to school. Kenora: Cranbrook: St. Eugene Catholic school Cecilia Jeffrey school, Continued from Page 33 (1898-1970), recently converted into a tourist Presbyterian- United Church (1900-1966). "resort" with federal funding, resulting in the Large burial mound east of former school. An inquiry is scheduled to start today... covering-over of a mass burial site by a golf Fort Albany: St. Anne’s Catholic course in front of the building. Numerous grave school (1936-1964). Children killed in electric Mass Graves at former Indian Residential sites are around and under this golf course. chair buried next to school. Schools and Hospitals across Canada Williams Lake: Catholic school (1890- Spanish: Catholic school (1883-1965). 1981), buildings destroyed but foundations Numerous graves. British Columbia intact, five miles south of city. Grave sites Brantford: Mohawk Institute, Anglican reported north of school grounds and under church (1850-1969), building intact. Series of foundations of tunnel-like structure. graves in orchard behind school building, under Port Alberni: Presbyterian- United Meares Island (Tofino): Kakawis- Church school (1895-1973), now occupied by Christie Catholic school (1898-1974). Buildings rows of trees. Sault Ste. Marie: Shingwauk Anglican the Nuu-Chah-Nulth Tribal Council (NTC) incorporated into Kakawis Healing Centre. school (1873-1969), some intact buildings. office, Kitskuksis Road. Grave site is a series of Body storage room reported in basement, Several graves of children reported on grounds sinkhole rows in hills 100 metres due west of adjacent to burial grounds south of school. of old school. the NTC building, in thick foliage, past an Kamloops: Catholic school (1890- unused water pipeline. Children also interred at 1978). Buildings intact. Mass grave south of Quebec: Tseshaht reserve cemetery, and in wooded gully school, adjacent to and amidst orchard. east of Catholic cemetery on River Road. Numerous burials witnessed there. Alert Bay: St. Michael’s Anglican school (1878- Lytton: St. George’s Anglican school Montreal: Allan Memorial Institute, 1975), situated on Cormorant Island offshore McGill University, still in operation since from Port McNeill. Presently building is used (1901-1979). Graves of students flogged to opening in 1940. MKULTRA experimental death, and others, reported under floorboards by Namgis First Nation. Site is an overgrown and next to playground. centre. Mass grave of children killed there north field adjacent to the building, and also under the Fraser Lake: Lejac Catholic school of building, on southern slopes of Mount Royal foundations of the present new building, (1910-1976), buildings destroyed. Graves behind stone wall.[] constructed during the 1960’s. Skeletons seen "between the walls". reported under old foundations and between the walls. Kuper Island: Catholic school (1890- 1975), offshore from Chemainus. Land Alberta: occupied by Penelakut Band. Former building is destroyed except for a staircase. Two grave sites: one immediately south of the former Edmonton: United Church school building, in a field containing a conventional (1919-1960), presently site of the Poundmaker cemetery; another at the west shoreline in a Lodge in St. Albert. Graves of children reported lagoon near the main dock. south of former school site, under thick hedge Nanaimo Indian Hospital: Indian that runs north-south, adjacent to memorial Affairs and United Church experimental facility marker. (1942-1970) on Department of National Edmonton: Charles Camsell Hospital Defense land. Buildings now destroyed. Grave (1945-1967), building intact, experimental sites are immediately east of former buildings hospital run by Indian Affairs and United on Fifth avenue, adjacent to and south of Church. Mass graves of children from hospital Malaspina College. reported south of building, near staff garden. WATCH Mission: St. Mary’s Catholic school Saddle Lake: Bluequills Catholic THE ‘X’ ZONE (1861-1984), adjacent to and north of Lougheed school (1898-1970), building intact, skeletons WITH Highway and Fraser River Heritage Park. and skulls observed in basement furnace. Mass ROB McCONNELL Original school buildings are destroyed, but grave reported adjacent to school. ON many foundations are visible on the grounds of Hobbema: Ermineskin Catholic school NNTV the Park. In this area there are two grave sites: (1916-1973), five intact skeletons observed in WEEK NIGHTS a) immediately adjacent to former girls’ school furnace. Graves under former building dormitory and present cemetery for priests, and foundations. STARTING a larger mass grave in an artificial earthen NOVEMBER 2010 mound, north of the cemetery among Manitoba: overgrown foliage and blackberry bushes, and www.NNTV.ca b) east of the old school grounds, on the hilly Brandon: Methodist-United Church or slopes next to the field leading to the newer school (1895-1972). Building intact. Burials www.xzoneradiotv.com/nntv.htm school building which is presently used by the reported west of school building. Sto:lo First Nation. Hill site is 150 metres west Portage La Prairie: Presbyterian- of building. United Church school (1895-1950). Children buried at nearby Hillside Cemetery. The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show North Vancouver: Norway House: Methodist-United with Church school (1900-1974). "Very old" grave site next to former school building, demolished Rob McConnell Squamish (1898-1959) and Sechelt (1912-1975) Catholic schools, buildings by United Church in 2004. www.xzoneradiotv.com destroyed. Graves of children who died in these Ontario: schools interred in the Squamish Band and the all new Cemetery, North Vancouver. Thunder Bay: Lakehead Psychiatric ‘X’ Zone Store Sardis: Coqualeetza Methodist-United Hospital, still in operation. Experimental centre. www.xzonestore.com Church school (1889-1940), then experimental Women and children reported buried adjacent to hospital run by federal government (1940- hospital grounds. and www.xzonetv.com 1969). Native burial site next to Sto:lo reserve Sioux Lookout: Pelican Lake Catholic