At least 55 kids disappeared from B.C. residential school, says report [Video]

WARNING: This story contains details of experiences at residential schools.

A British Columbia First Nation says at least 55 children died or disappeared while attending a residential school near Williams Lake — more than triple the number recorded for the institution in the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation memorial register.

The higher figure is contained in an interim report by the Williams Lake First Nation into the St. Joseph’s Mission Indian Residential School.

The report says investigators will finalize ground-penetrating radar surveys this year and hold meetings on potential excavation, exhumation, repatriation, DNA testing and genealogical mapping before any decision on digging up possible graves is made. 

There are currently “no definitive processes planned” for excavation, it says.

WATCH | 1991 documentary examines the history of St. Joseph’s Mission School: 

The report says no confirmed human remains have been found to date, but adds there is an “overwhelming abundance of evidence” supporting the legitimacy of the investigation that …