The lead investigator of BC First Nations has announced its investigation has revealed that no fewer than 28 children died on the grounds of a former residential school and discovered 66 more likely burial sites.
Whitney Spearing, along with the Williams Lake First Nation (WLFN) investigation team, spent 2022 gathering documents and surveying around 0.18 square kilometres of the grounds of the former St. Joseph’s Mission site.
“It is also clear that many of the children and infant babies born at the mission as a product of child sexual assault were disposed of through incineration on and off-site at the mission.”
Many members of WLFN were forced to attend St. Joseph’s, which was established in 1891. It started as an industrial school and later expanded to include Onward Ranch, that was acquired in 1964 to sustain the school.
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