15 Jul 2021

More graves found at Canadian residential school

From Morning Report, 8:47 am on 15 July 2021

In Canada, more graves of indigenous children at residential schools have been found.

The latest discovery is in British Columbia at a former indigenous residential school known as 'Canada's Alcatraz'.

Survivors from the island school say some children died after taking to the water to try to escape the abuse they suffered at the school.

Hundreds of unmarked graves have been discovered in recent weeks and dozens of investigations, many using ground-penetrating radar, continue on the grounds of former residential schools across the country.

Meanwhile, there have been complaints over the appointment of Canada's frist Indigenous govenor general's inability to speak French.

Canada correspondent Laura McQullian spoke to Kim Hill.