Ground-penetrating radar found 215 child remains in unmarked graves
Evidence
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC), established in 2008 and reporting in 2015, documented that approximately 150,000 Indigenous children passed through the residential-school system across its 165-year operational period. The TRC documented at least 4,100 children who died at the schools — from disease, malnutrition, abuse, and neglect. The actual number is believed to be substantially higher; many deaths were undocumented. In 2021, ground-penetrating radar at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia detected the remains of an estimated 215 children in unmarked graves. Subsequent surveys at other former school sites across Canada detected hundreds more. — , The Rod and the Child, 5154