A woman from Inuvik, N.W.T., says finding and marking the grave of her long lost brother, who died as a baby during the tuberculosis epidemic, feels like closure to her.
Peggy Day said Ricky Don Kayotuk would have been an older brother to her if he hadn’t passed away at 10 months old at Charles Camsell Hospital in Edmonton, where he’d been sent after becoming sick.
His grave is one of 12 recently found in the Edmonton area by the Nanilavut Initiative, which searches for Inuit who were separated from their families and who died during the epidemic from the 1940s to
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