Another ‘shocking find’ of hundreds of graves in Canada | Abroad

The Marieval Indian Residential School, where the graves were said to have been discovered after radar search, is more than 15 miles from Broadview. According to local media, the boarding school opened in 1899 and closed in 1997. Canada had many educational institutions in the last century where resident children were sometimes ‘civilized’ with a heavy hand.

A few weeks ago, the remains of 215 youths were discovered at a boarding school in Kamloops, which housed indigenous children between 1890 and 1969. The find shocked Canadians, who called on Pope Francis to apologize for the abuse at boarding schools run by the Church for the federal government. The Pope has so far failed to apologize, although he has expressed his disgust. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said after the Kamloops find that the news broke his heart.

’Genocide’

The Catholic Church controlled many of the boarding schools that existed in Canada until the late 20th century, to which Indigenous children were forcibly sent. About 150,000 children were isolated there from their family, language and culture. The aim of the boarding schools was to allow the children to adapt to the culture of the white inhabitants of Canada. A national commission of inquiry in 2015 called the system “cultural genocide.”

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