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Unmarked graves found at Battleford Industrial School

1974
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Battleford Industrial School (SK) (Subject)
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Five anthropology students from the University of Saskatchewan discovered 74 unmarked graves on the grounds of the Battleford Industrial School. When in 1914 the school closed, the principal, E. Matheson, reminded Indian Affairs that there was a cemetery on the grounds containing 70 to 80 graves. The cemetery was never registered, however. The University of Saskatchewan students mapped its boundaries, excavated individual graves, and erected grave markers. Fifty of the deceased were identified and a cairn erected bearing their names. 

Image courtesy of Ben Feist.

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