‘An atrocity’: MPs, Senators, diplomats decry discovery of 751 unmarked graves near Sask. residential school

The revelation by Cowessess First Nation on June 24 comes less than a month after Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation reported finding the remains of 215 children on the grounds of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.

A child adds shoes to the memorial left on Parliament Hill on June 3, 2021, to symbolize the remains of 215 children found at a former residential school in B.C. On June 24, a second burial site, with an estimated 751 unmarked graves, was found at a former Saskatchewan residential school. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

June 24, 2021

The “horrific” discovery in Saskatchewan of a second residential school gravesite, with an estimated 751 bodies, prompted a quick outpouring of grief and anger among Canada’s political class, some of whom decried the sites as crime scenes and said it’s now tim...

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