WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C.
— The lead investigator in the search for unmarked graves at a former residential institution near the Williams Lake First Nation in central British Columbia says their work has uncovered 66 additional"reflections," indicating children's graves.
Spearing said their work found"a minimum" of 28 children died at the mission, many of them buried in unmarked graves around the site. The nation first announced a year ago that the first phase of its investigation had uncovered 93"reflections" indicative of human burials.Williams Lake First Nation Chief Willie Sellars said 34 of 782 hectares requiring investigation have so far been subjected to geophysical analysis, and the next steps will potentially involve excavation in areas that have already been scanned.
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