Kimberley Murray will not find proof of a single missing or murdered student because there is none. Legacy media will continue to bury the truth that no such children are buried.
A rational objective essay. Keep up this important work. I taught at the Grouard mission school of St. Bernard's, Alberta, in 1968-9. We had no school deaths. I visited the local cemetery which had numerous wooden crosses ,one of which still stands out in my memory, "Billy". Obviously much loved and sorely missed. The area was deeply grassed and not tended while I was there.
In 1987-90 I ran a maintenance program for the We La La Lu in Alert Bay BC. The island had St. Mikes residential school in the community. The Island on which Alert Bay stood had a new cemetery which was mowed and tended occasionally and I believe was used by both indigenous and other peoples. The old indigenous cemetery South East of the ferry and on the water front had many totem poles in reasonable state of repair. However local elders declared that the coast road running past it was placed over graves. This would have made them below the extreme high tides. The road was duly blocked off which forced the traffic up, across and down a steep hill terminating in a "T" junction which was extremely dangerous. The department of BC highways surveyed the area for a road to project out to sea around the alleged graves. However they said it was possible to conduct a ground penetrating radar search which could indicate whether there were potential grave in the area and thereby eliminate a road construction expense The elders said without a doubt there were burials and refused to allow the use of ground penetrating radar . As a consequence the newly built road from the ferry takes a long curve around the cemetery foreshore On talking to the BC Highways office in Courtenay I found out it cost $1,000,000 to construct this detour. Those are 1990 $,s!! You might want to follow this up. Although 30 plus years ago my memory is sound.
I had occasion to visit Kincombe inlet further up the coast from Alert bay which was only accessible by float plane or by boat. I could not gain access to the cemetery because of the blackberry bushes which are voracious in this coastal climate. A visit to Hopetown not far away was as difficult to access and had their gravesite on a small rocky islet with little vegetative growth and coffins were stored in small wooden houses placed over the rocky terrain.
Maintenance and custom of gravesites , in my experience ,vary greatly. My own experience in locating my ancestors grave in Weybridge Surrey, UK was unsuccessful although we did find a headstone laid against the old brick wall with the family name. The whole area was grassed. Neither my father or I were unduly concerned. We came from the earth and to it we all return.
As an aside my British community of Highgate ,North London ,is the location of the Victorian effort to systematize burial sites with the famous early West cemetery of marble mausoleums and famous names and the later East cemetery where Karl Marx is buried. I had the experience of seeing Yuri Gagarin's visit to this site.
I hope I have given a balanced overview of my experiences and contributed to a breadth of knowledge.
This article (below) from "The Two Row Times" out in August 2022 continues, like many other recent articles I've read, the belief that (to quote from the article) "thousands of hidden graves containing child remains have been found at former residential schools across Canada." The article says "Statistics will be coming at the end of August (2022)."
I can't find any evidence that any stats. were actually released.
Kimberley Murray has spent a lot of money on ceremonies. From a Dec. 6th article in APTN news: "Despite being funded by the federal government, Murray says she has asserted the independence that her title comes with. One example of that is spending more than Treasury Board guidelines allow for on meals for people at the national gatherings that are being held."
Here is a link to the "Two Row Times" article from August 2022.
In her 2022 New Year's Speech, (Dec. 29) Governor General Mary Simon said that this was a year in which many "dark truths" about Canada came to light, one of them being "the pain and trauma of children's unmarked graves found at residential schools." When the Governor General of Canada is saying this, these ideas have surely permeated the culture and are now seen as absolute truths.
The unmarked graves boondoggle is pure Orwellian 'Ministry of Truth' (and reconciliation) invention, with a twenty-first century Woke twist.
Mandela and Tututu would turn in their graves if they could see how their honest attempts to deconstruct Afrikaner fascism could be twisted by opportunists like Kimberly Murray....
Kimberley Murray will not find proof of a single missing or murdered student because there is none. Legacy media will continue to bury the truth that no such children are buried.
A rational objective essay. Keep up this important work. I taught at the Grouard mission school of St. Bernard's, Alberta, in 1968-9. We had no school deaths. I visited the local cemetery which had numerous wooden crosses ,one of which still stands out in my memory, "Billy". Obviously much loved and sorely missed. The area was deeply grassed and not tended while I was there.
In 1987-90 I ran a maintenance program for the We La La Lu in Alert Bay BC. The island had St. Mikes residential school in the community. The Island on which Alert Bay stood had a new cemetery which was mowed and tended occasionally and I believe was used by both indigenous and other peoples. The old indigenous cemetery South East of the ferry and on the water front had many totem poles in reasonable state of repair. However local elders declared that the coast road running past it was placed over graves. This would have made them below the extreme high tides. The road was duly blocked off which forced the traffic up, across and down a steep hill terminating in a "T" junction which was extremely dangerous. The department of BC highways surveyed the area for a road to project out to sea around the alleged graves. However they said it was possible to conduct a ground penetrating radar search which could indicate whether there were potential grave in the area and thereby eliminate a road construction expense The elders said without a doubt there were burials and refused to allow the use of ground penetrating radar . As a consequence the newly built road from the ferry takes a long curve around the cemetery foreshore On talking to the BC Highways office in Courtenay I found out it cost $1,000,000 to construct this detour. Those are 1990 $,s!! You might want to follow this up. Although 30 plus years ago my memory is sound.
I had occasion to visit Kincombe inlet further up the coast from Alert bay which was only accessible by float plane or by boat. I could not gain access to the cemetery because of the blackberry bushes which are voracious in this coastal climate. A visit to Hopetown not far away was as difficult to access and had their gravesite on a small rocky islet with little vegetative growth and coffins were stored in small wooden houses placed over the rocky terrain.
Maintenance and custom of gravesites , in my experience ,vary greatly. My own experience in locating my ancestors grave in Weybridge Surrey, UK was unsuccessful although we did find a headstone laid against the old brick wall with the family name. The whole area was grassed. Neither my father or I were unduly concerned. We came from the earth and to it we all return.
As an aside my British community of Highgate ,North London ,is the location of the Victorian effort to systematize burial sites with the famous early West cemetery of marble mausoleums and famous names and the later East cemetery where Karl Marx is buried. I had the experience of seeing Yuri Gagarin's visit to this site.
I hope I have given a balanced overview of my experiences and contributed to a breadth of knowledge.
This article (below) from "The Two Row Times" out in August 2022 continues, like many other recent articles I've read, the belief that (to quote from the article) "thousands of hidden graves containing child remains have been found at former residential schools across Canada." The article says "Statistics will be coming at the end of August (2022)."
I can't find any evidence that any stats. were actually released.
Kimberley Murray has spent a lot of money on ceremonies. From a Dec. 6th article in APTN news: "Despite being funded by the federal government, Murray says she has asserted the independence that her title comes with. One example of that is spending more than Treasury Board guidelines allow for on meals for people at the national gatherings that are being held."
Here is a link to the "Two Row Times" article from August 2022.
https://tworowtimes.com/news/local/statistics-on-ground-search-at-mohawk-institute-coming-at-end-of-august/
In her 2022 New Year's Speech, (Dec. 29) Governor General Mary Simon said that this was a year in which many "dark truths" about Canada came to light, one of them being "the pain and trauma of children's unmarked graves found at residential schools." When the Governor General of Canada is saying this, these ideas have surely permeated the culture and are now seen as absolute truths.
The unmarked graves boondoggle is pure Orwellian 'Ministry of Truth' (and reconciliation) invention, with a twenty-first century Woke twist.
Mandela and Tututu would turn in their graves if they could see how their honest attempts to deconstruct Afrikaner fascism could be twisted by opportunists like Kimberly Murray....