Searching for the victims
The federal government has pledged $27 million for communities to search for the remains of Indigenous children who died while attending residential schools and who were buried in unmarked graves. The funding announcement came in the wake of national outrage over the discovery this spring of the remains of 215 Indigenous children at a former Kamloops residential school. The funding will be administered by the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR). For more information contact the NCTR by phone at 1-855-415-4534 or by email at nctr@umanitoba.ca.