Canada pledges to support efforts to find more school gravesites

Flowers, children’s shoes and other items at a memorial at the Eternal flame on Parliament Hill in Ottawa (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)

A Canadian cabinet minister has pledged again to support efforts to find more unmarked graves at former residential schools for indigenous students after the remains of 215 children were located at what was once Canada’s largest such school.

The comments from indigenous relations minister Carolyn Bennett come as First Nations leaders called for an examination of other former residential schools – institutions that held indigenous children taken from families across the nation.