CP NewsAlert: B.C. First Nation research finds 158 child deaths at four facilities

By The Canadian Press on September 21, 2023.

The Survivors' Flag hangs to honour Indigenous Peoples who were forced to attend residential schools, on the grounds of the legislature in Victoria, B.C., on Wednesday, September 28, 2022. A Fraser Valley First Nation is expected to provide an update on its work into missing children and unmarked burials at three former residential school sites. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

MISSION, BRITISH COLUMBIA – An investigation into unmarked graves and missing children by British Columbia’s Sto:lo Nation has revealed at least 158 deaths, most of them at an Indigenous hospital.

Researchers with the nation say archival research about three residential schools in southwestern B.C. and a First Nation hospital shows most of the children reportedly died of disease, some of accidents, while other causes of death are unknown.

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