New documents reveal dozens more children died at northern Manitoba residential school
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WARNING: This story contains distressing details.
A northern Manitoba First Nation has learned dozens more children died at a former residential school in the community, after previous records had described 30 known deaths.
Pimicikamak Chief David Monias says the Archdiocese of Keewatin-Le Pas shared records revealing 84 students died at the Cross Lake Residential School between 1912 and 1967.
"It makes you angry," Monias said, though he said he is appreciative of the diocese for sharing the documents.
The records list the children who passed away and how they died, he said.
"They had written down infants, 'little boy', 'little girl.' Some they wrote down first names only and maybe a quarter of those had full names attached to them," Monias said. The information stirred up difficult memories, he said — he was a day school survivor and both of his parents attended residential schools.
The Cross Lake Residential School, about 530 km north of Winnipeg, was funded by the Government of Canada and operated by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate via the Roman Catholic Diocese until 1962, according to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR).
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