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Line 834: === Shubenacadie Nova Scotia === A member of the [[Sipekneꞌkatik First Nation]], a curator with the [[Nova Scotia Museum]], and an associate professor from [[Saint Mary's University (Halifax)|Saint Mary's University]] investigated of the site of the former [[Shubenacadie Indian Residential School]] in [[Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia]]. They found unmarked graves from more than a hundred years before the school was founded,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion/shubenacadie-residential-school-search-hasnt-found-anything-yet-26991961 |title=Shubenacadie residential school search hasn’t found anything yet But that doesn’t mean nothing happened there |first1=Victoria |last1=Walton |publisher=The Coast |date=August 12, 2021}}</ref> but nothing related to the school, which operated from 1929 to 1967, and the building burned to the ground in 1986. The land is now occupied by a plastics factory and used as farmland. The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation lists 16 children who died while at the school, and the community feared more had been buried at the site.<ref>{{cite news|last=Smith|first=Emma|date=June 16, 2021|title='A huge task': Search will take time at former Shubenacadie residential school site|work=[[CBC News]]|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/shubenacadie-residential-school-search-roger-lewis-sipekne-katik-first-nation-jonathan-fowler-1.6067990|access-date=June 28, 2021}}</ref> The investigation used of ground-penetrating radar and aerial laser scanning. === Charles Camsell Hospital === | |||