Canada’s Unmarked Graves: The Hoax of the Century
No mass graves with the remains of Indigenous children have been discovered.
May 2021. Spokespersons for a First Nation in Kamloops, British Columbia, reveal that it has discovered 215 anonymous graves near a former federally administered residential school. Others would supposedly be discovered subsequently, mainly in the Western Canadian provinces.
The far-left government of Justin Trudeau then seizes the opportunity to divide the country once more and flirts with the idea that the whole thing was genocide. Trudeau decides to unlock $40 billion to flood indigenous communities, without confirming the basis of these discoveries.
As a result, the wrong message is sent to the world: Canada, which was built on the foundations of “colonialism”, is a land of racists.
“Burn the Churches!”
When that story broke out, the media ideologically close to Trudeau, that is, the vast majority of the Canadian press groups, were ecstatic to condemn the white man, that “serial murderer”. These were the same media that remained silent on arson and other criminal acts that would be committed against churches across the country afterwards.
In certain “progressive” circles, some went so far as to encourage arsonists. “Burn them all,” the president of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association declared, referring to churches. “Burn everything!”, the president of the Newfoundland section of the Canadian Bar Association exclaimed.
Not to be outdone, neo-Marxist NDP MP Niki Ashton praised the hostile mob tearing down statues in the Manitoba legislature. And what about Gerald Butts, former close advisor to Justin Trudeau, who wrote on Twitter/X that burning churches was not cool, but “understandable”.
These messages, which called for the destruction of Christian holy sites, were clearly understood: more than 60 churches were vandalized or burned down across Canada in 2021 and 2022. But Ottawa preferred to mimic the media and maintain a total blackout on these events; not a word from Justin Trudeau was heard about the destroyed churches.
No Mass Grave Discovered
Three years later, no one has succeeded in proving the presence of indigenous mass graves on Canadian soil. Tom Flanagan, professor of political science at the University of Calgary, said that the story was “the worst fake news in Canadian history.”
He’s not alone on that side: Cadmus Delorme, the chief of the Cowessess Nation, in Saskatchewan, refuses to speak of mass graves, choosing instead to designate the latter as anonymous graves.
Eldon Yellowhorn, professor and founding chair of the Indigenous Studies department at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, was hired by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada to research and identify the graves of Indigenous children at residential schools. He saw nothing abnormal, according to his statements.
Sophie Pierre, a former chief, told Global News that her community has always been aware of the presence not of mass graves, but of unmarked graves. “The fact there are graves inside a graveyard shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone”, she said.
What Is It About, Then?
In the early years of the Canadian residential school system, around the 1890s, a third of children died before their fifth birthday, according to retired Manitoba Provincial Court judge Brian Giesbrecht. Infant mortality was not attributable to mass murder or genocidal intent but to diseases such as tuberculosis, which accounted for almost half of the deaths reported at residential schools.
If there is an organization well aware of this reality, it is the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, which published a report in 2015 on this subject.
The report contains, among other things, an account of the 1918 influenza pandemic at the residential school in Fort St. James, British Columbia, where almost all staff and students contracted the infectious disease. In total, 78 people died there during this pandemic. The school principal, Father Joseph Allard, wrote in his diary: “[…] several bodies were piled up in an empty cabin because there was no grave ready. A large common grave was dug for them.”
Graves near residential schools contained not only the bodies of students but also those of teachers, as well as members of the Catholic Church and the local community. Small wooden crosses identifying the deceased were planted on their graves and they disintegrated or even disappeared over time.
The children who attended residential schools were mostly torn from their troubled homes. Between the 1940s and the mid-1960s, Indigenous officers removed children from homes they deemed unsuitable or unsafe and placed them in residential schools. For instance, a 1967 report indicates that in some residential schools in Saskatchewan, up to 80% of students attended them as a protective measure.
Indigenous young people did not die of persecution, as the Canadian government led the world to believe. But since Justin Trudeau and his minions have adopted racial theories that suggest that the white man is intrinsically evil, they chose to defend the widow and the orphan to the detriment of the majority.
Sources
L’Aut Journal, Le Devoir, Rebel News, The National Post, The New York Post #1, #2, TNC #1, #2, #3, #4, #5 The Spectator
