The former Chief of the Esk’etemc First Nation says she would like to find the remains of her great-grandfather, who took his own life while at St. Joseph’s Mission Residential School in Williams Lake, B-C.
Charlene Belleau found out about her great-grandfather, who died in the summer of 1920 by eating poisonous water hemlock, through a report she oversaw years later.
Belleau is one of the two newly appointed First Nations liaisons to help the Indigenous communities as the search for remains continues.
The B-C government says it will provide immediate funding to 21 First Nation communities to help with searches for human remains at former residential schools or hospitals
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