FOG BLOG CANADA NEWS LOG: 751 UNMARKED GRAVES FOUND IN SASKATCHEWAN NEAR FORMER RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL!

Cowessess First Nation says 751 unmarked graves found near former Sask. residential school.......The Cowessess First Nation, located 164 kilometres east of Regina, began radar scanning of the school grounds and surrounding area on June 1. The findings of that search were officially announced at a news briefing Thursday......Chief Cadmus Delorme emphasized that the findings were not from a mass grave but unmarked graves where headstones had been removed....The Catholic church representatives removed the headstones and today they are unmarked graves,” he said.

The ground penetrating radar used to search the grounds marked 751 hits, but Delorme said the machine isn’t perfect and there is a 10 to 15 per cent margin of error with the process.

“Each of these hits will be assessed by a technical team, and we will get a verified number in the coming weeks,” he said.

At this stage of the investigation they are unable to identify the remains in the unmarked graves, which may belong to both adults and children.

“We cannot confirm that they are all children, but there are oral stories that there are adults in this gravesite as well,” Delorme added.

He said that students could have come from southern Saskatchewan as well as from Manitoba.