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Family denied funds to repatriate remains of man in residential school says Ottawa ‘hid him until he died’ | CBC News

Family denied funds to repatriate remains of man in residential school says Ottawa ‘hid him until he died’ | CBC News

A family from Long Lake #58 First Nation in northern Ontario has spent years trying to repatriate the remains of Percy Onabigon, who was put in a residential school and then transferred to a number of institutions. But his relatives have been denied federal funding because he died when he was an adult, not a child.

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