Search For Graves at Yukon Residential School Planned

The first ground search for unmarked graves at a former Yukon residential school in Canada will start this summer in Carcross, reports CBC News.

At least 20 Indigenous children died at Chooutla Indian Residential School between 1911 and 1969, according to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. 

A working group that will lead the ground search there says that number could be as high as 42. Of those 42, preliminary research is unable to identify 13 of those children.

The school was run by the Anglican Church and demolished in 1993.

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