The phoney story about Indian children’s mass graves was debunked years ago, but it's continued to linger in media clown world. This might put the final nail in the coffins
/Canadian churches burned for the "mass graves" scandal. The search is now ending with over $200M spent and ZERO bodies found.
The funding has now been pulled after four years of searching. No remains have been found.
In 2021, the Canadian government allotted a reported $320 million for a Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support Fund, which was intended to investigate allegations that hundreds of children were killed and buried in "unmarked graves" by Catholics and other Christian groups.
From the Daily Wire:
The committee and organization's entire existence is based on the notion that hundreds of children were killed at residential schools and buried in unmarked graves - a narrative that has seemingly fallen apart. The initial claims in 2021 led to apologies, riots, and the vandalism or burning of 55 Canadian churches…
No bodies have ever been found. That's right — none. Not "fewer than expected," not "just a couple"... ZERO. But that didn't stop people from protesting, rioting, and burning dozens of churches to the ground.’The committee and organization's entire existence is based on the notion that hundreds of children were killed at residential schools and buried in unmarked graves - a narrative that has seemingly fallen apart. The initial claims in 2021 led to apologies, riots, and the vandalism or burning of 55 Canadian churches…
But wait — There’s More!
3 Years Later, Canadian ‘Mass Graves’ Claims Remain Unproven
Despite the lack of supporting evidence, a bill was introduced in Canada’s federal parliament last month that would criminalize statements that deviate from the prevailing narrative on residential schools.
Register StaffNewsOctober 18, 2024
Three years after controversy erupted across Canada and internationally over “mass graves” allegedly located near the residential schools for Indigenous children that once operated in Canada, evidence continues to accumulate that these claims lack any factual foundation.
This comprehensive absence of substantiation was highlighted in an Oct. 14 article by Wall Street Journal columnist Mary Anastasia O’Grady, titled “Canada’s Unproven Mass-Grave Scandal.” The article referenced a bill that was introduced last month in the House of Commons of Canada that would criminalize “condoning, denying, downplaying or justifying the Indian residential school system in Canada through statements communicated other than in private conversation.”
The initial allegation regarding the discovery of unmarked graves was made in May 2021 in Kamloops, British Columbia. Based on the findings of a ground-penetrating radar survey of an orchard located beside the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, Rosanne Casimir, chief of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation, issued a press release stating the survey had provided “confirmation of the remains of 215 children” who had been students at the school and whose deaths there had been undocumented.
But in late May of this year, Canadian journalist Terry Glavin reported in the National Post that Casimir has now dropped the central element of her claim regarding the ground-penetrating radar survey’s findings. In a press release commemorating the third anniversary of her 2021 statement, Casimir omitted her previous reference to dead children, stating only there had been “confirmation of 215 anomalies.”
In fact, the ground-penetrating radar had merely identified “anomalies” under the surface of the Kamloops site. Such anomalies indicate only that some kind of soil disturbance has occurred, not the definite presence of any human bodies. Despite this uncertainty, until this year the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation declined to acknowledge that the existence of children’s graves was unproven.
Glavin’s National Post article noted that the First Nation’s leadership has been aware of the flaws associated with its ground-radar survey since at least 2022, when they received an independent site analysis of historical activity that took place at the site since the residential school was founded in 1890. And according to a June 2023 article in The Dorchester Review, a Canadian journal that has published a number of articles challenging the prevailing narrative regarding the government-funded residential schools that were operated by the Catholic Church and other Christian denominations, it should have been evident even before they were released that the Kamloops findings were highly questionable. That’s because readily accessible archival records documented that trenches, lined with clay tiles, had been dug at the site as a septic field in 1924, and it’s known that such trenches can’t be distinguished from graves by ground-penetrating radar.
No Proof Elsewhere
In the weeks following the May 2021 statement regarding the Kamloops school’s graves, similar claims were made in connection with other former residential schools in British Columbia and in other Canadian provinces. By July of that year, it was alleged that a total of more than 1,300 unmarked graves had been discovered via ground-penetrating radar surveys.
Because the Catholic Church oversaw the majority of Canada’s government-funded residential schools, which operated from the late 1800s until the last one closed in 1996, these allegations triggered a wave of anti-Catholic violence. In the summer of 2021 more than 60 churches, most of them Catholic, were burned to the ground or vandalized, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called for Pope Francis to apologize personally. The controversy impelled the Pope to make a “pilgrimage of reconciliation” to Canada the following year, during which he apologized, without specifically referencing the mass graves claims, for any harm the schools had caused to the nation’s Indigenous peoples.
“An important part of this process will be to conduct a serious investigation into the facts of what took place in the past and to assist the survivors of the residential schools to experience healing from the traumas they suffered,” Francis said at that time.
The only completed excavation to date was conducted in 2023 at Pine Creek, Manitoba, where a ground-radar survey had identified anomalies in the basement of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Catholic Church, located close to the former Pine Creek Residential School. No human remains were found during that excavation.
People came from around the world to apologize for the White Man’s sins and get a little publicity while they were there.
July, 2022:
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