Here's a timeline of those events:Government apology, 2008Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper officially apologizes in June 2008 to Indigenous peoples for "failing them so profoundly." "We are sorry," he says in the House of Commons, flanked by residential school alumni, adding that "the treatment of children in Indian Residential Schools is a sad chapter in our history." The Lower Kootenay Band also says it found 182 unmarked graves at the St. Eugene's Mission School in British Columbia. Over the coming months, several more searches begin, eventually bringing the total number of unmarked graves found to more than 1,300. There he will meet with Indigenous survivors of abuse committed at residential schools.

Source: Daily Nation July 20, 2022 02:41 UTC