Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia
According to the Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations in Canada, no human remains have been discovered at the site of an alleged “mass grave” at the Indian Residential School in Kamloops in British Columbia.
On May 27, 2021, the Tkʼemlúps te Secwepemc First Nation claimed they had discovered the “heartbreaking truth” regarding the Catholic-run residential school after a ground-penetrating radar allegedly uncovered a mass grave of 215 children.
Three years, $7.9 million, and at least 85 destroyed historic Catholic churches later, no human remains have been discovered, according to a May 9 report from Western Standard.
Department spokesperson Carolane Gratton stated in the report that the department had allocated the $7.9 million to uncovering the bodies, and confirmed that no progress had been made.
Both Gratton and the First Nation tribe have declined to disclose how the funds were utilized.
In an op-ed published in The Federalist on May 10, Senior Editor John Daniel Davidson described the situation as “a hoax” and “a modern-day libel against Christians” that resulted in the widespread destruction of historic Catholic churches across Canada.
“Canadian political and civil society leaders cheered on this destruction, and then doled out hundreds of millions of dollars to investigate the mass graves and create a ‘support fund’ for indigenous people,” Davidson recalled, adding:
Davidson further noted that the alleged mass graves were not mass graves, as “the outraged left said they were,” but rather, individual graves located in cemeteries. The graves, which also contained the bodies of priests and nuns, Davidson wrote, were unmarked because the government had refused to pay for headstones.
“So there was no cover-up and no mass graves, just a complicated and nuanced history. But it’s a history Canada’s ruling political and media elite aren’t interested in exploring honestly,” Davidson concluded.
At the time of the alleged discovery, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ordered the Peace Tower flag to be lowered to half-mast for 161 days, allocated $3.1 million for a national Residential Schools Student Death Register, and reserved $238.8 million for a Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support Fund, which expires next year, according to Western Standard.
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