After ‘burial features’ detected on McIntosh residential school grounds, researchers help families get closure.

January 27, 2025

Members of an Indigenous-led research team that detected 114 “unmarked burial features” on the former property of McIntosh Indian Residential School (IRS) are working to identify people who were buried to help families find closure.

The results released Thursday provide a grim validation of what survivors and their families have been saying for decades: that many Indigenous children forced to attend residential schools like McIntosh died and never made it home…