Your questions answered about Canada's residential school system

WARNING: This story contains details some readers may find distressing.

The discovery of what is believed to be the remains of 215 children at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C., has stunned Canadians and renewed focus on what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called a “dark and shameful chapter of our country’s history.”

It is also another reminder for Indigenous peoples living in Canada of a painful history they’ve known about all along.

The Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First