Investigation launched into students and practices at former BC residential school

The Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, along with the Catholic Archdiocese, will be launching an investigation into a former residential school in North Vancouver.

Khelsilem (Dustin Rivers), the spokesperson for the Squamish Nation Council, said Tuesday morning this work is about protecting and helping survivors of the former St. Paul’s Indian Residential School.

The investigation will include looking at who attended the school, what happened there, and who did not make it home, as well as any unmarked or undocumented burial sites.

The Nations said more than 2,000 Indigenous children, representing six generations of Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ Nations, and other Indigenous communities, were institutionalized at St. Paul’s from grades one through eight.

According to public records, 12 unidentified students died while attending St. Paul’s between 1904 and 1913. The Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw’s goal with the investigation of the former residential school site, located within Squamish unceded territory, is to find the location of each of these children and bring them home to rest.

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