Northwestern Ontario First Nation 'alerted' to 22 areas of potential historic remains

A First Nation in northwestern Ontario says it has found 22 areas where human remains may be buried at the site of a former residential school. The Wauzhushk Onigum Nation, near Kenora, Ont., was "alerted" to the areas at the site of the former St. Mary's Residential School in mid-August after using a cadaver dog to conduct ground searches in and around the old school grounds. The community announced earlier this year it had discovered 171 anomalies at the old site with most of them being potential unmarked burial grounds. In a statement, the community says 19 of the 22 new areas the cadaver dogs found overlap with areas identified by residential school survivors as potential burial sites from when it was in operation. The community is expecting to release a full report of its investigation early next year that is to include findings from searches using the cadaver dogs and ground-penetrating radar, as well as testimonies from survivors and archaeological assessments. More than 6,000