Sagkeeng gets $600K for search of former residential school
Advertisement
Read this article for free:
or
Already have an account? Log in here »
To continue reading, please subscribe:
Digital Subscription
One year of digital access for only $205*
- Enjoy unlimited reading on winnipegfreepress.com
- Read the E-Edition, our digital replica newspaper
- Access News Break, our award-winning app
- Play interactive puzzles
*First annual payment billed as $205.00 + GST for one year. This annual subscription will automatically renew at $233.00 + GST every 52 weeks (10% off the regular annual price of $259.35). Offer available to new and qualified returning subscribers only. Cancel any time.
To continue reading, please subscribe:
Add Free Press access to your Brandon Sun subscription for only an additional
$1 for the first 4 weeks*
- Enjoy unlimited reading on winnipegfreepress.com
- Read the E-Edition, our digital replica newspaper
- Access News Break, our award-winning app
- Play interactive puzzles
*Your next Brandon Sun subscription payment will increase by $1.00 and you will be charged $17.95 plus GST for four weeks. After four weeks, your payment will increase to $24.95 plus GST every four weeks.
Read unlimited articles for free today:
or
Already have an account? Log in here »
Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 05/05/2022 (1545 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Sagkeeng First Nation has received $610,093 from the federal government to search for burial sites near the former Fort Alexander residential school.
A private company has been conducting scans with drones and ground-penetrating radar, since July, on the reserve 100 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg.
On Wednesday, Ottawa announced it will help pay for those searches, as well as archival research, mental-health supports and to commemorate the missing children who attended the residential school.
The community’s elders believe children were buried at the site of the former residential school, and that others might be located along the shores of the Winnipeg River.
RCMP have been investigating allegations at the former residential school for a decade.
History
Updated on Thursday, May 5, 2022 5:45 AM CDT: Adds headline