A ground search at the site of the former Pine Creek Residential School has revealed six anomalies that could be unmarked graves. The ground search started in early May at the site of the Catholic Church-run residential school which was in operation from the 1890s to 1969.
Derek Nepinak, chief of the Pine Creek First Nation, said that community members were told about the findings on Monday, and the results were upsetting, but not unexpected.
The First Nation asked AltoMaxx, the B.C.-based company that performed the search, to come back and carry out a more thorough radar search of the site to determine whether what they found are, in fact, unmarked graves.
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