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Chief and council from the Williams Lake First Nation (WLFN) plan to release the preliminary geophysical results from the first phase of the St. Joseph’s Mission Residential School investigation Tuesday afternoon.
After the discovery of a burial site next to the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in May 2021 that preliminary findings suggest could contain children’s remains, WLFN launched its own search on the grounds of St. Joseph’s — which many of the nation’s members were forced to attend between 1886 and 1981.
“We’re grateful that we were able to complete the first phase of our geophysical research
