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No evidence of human remains was found during a four-week excavation of a church basement at a former residential school in the Parkland area. 

Last year, ground-penetrating radar was used in the basement of the Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Catholic church on the site of the former Pine Creek Residential School, which detected fourteen anomalies.

An archeological team from the University of Brandon was hired by the Minegoziibe Anishinabe First Nation to do the excavation earlier this summer.

Chief Derek Nepinak says the result does not mark the end of their ``truth-finding project.''

The Pine Creek School was run by the Roman Catholic church and was operated from 1890 to 1969.