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My family’s survival of residential school inspired me to identify people buried in unmarked graves

My family’s survival of residential school inspired me to identify people buried in unmarked graves

Shannon Cornelsen knows she is from a family of survivors. On her mother’s side, many of her loved ones lived through the residential school system. And that’s what's motivating her to take on the task of reconnecting families of those who died in the Camsell, a hospital in Edmonton where many Indigenous people were taken from the North and never came home.

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