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Originally Posted by transplant99
From that article
That would line up with the Spanish flu, which may explain a lot of it and why im wondering if the Kamloops thing might be the same.
Again though the graves, at the very least, should have been marked, proper notification of families, and a paper trail cataloging the whole thing should be public record.
Inexcusable that there isn't.
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For Red Deer, they have a list of students with date of death. While "unknown" is somewhat common, the vast majority came before 1918:
https://nctr.ca/residential-schools/...strial-school/
I think chalking it up to the Spanish Flu is too convenient, and excuses the horrific conditions and lack of care these places operated under for decades before and after.
The reality is that the Spanish Flu played some part, but was certainly not responsible for the majority of these deaths. And if you look at the data breakdown of deaths, guesses are that the pandemic did not kill at a significantly higher rate for children under 15. The Spanish Flu primarily impacted those between 20 and 40.