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To this day no one has found the remains of the brothers Charles and Tom Ombash who ran away from an Indian residential school in Sioux Lookout, Ont., on Oct. 5, 1956.
School officials waited for about a month before notifying police and Indian Affairs.
At least 33 students are recorded to have died by running away from residential schools. Most succumbed to exposure.
There were other ways Indigenous children attending residential schools died. In 1949, Rodney Beardy, 15, was killed in a tractor accident at an Indian residential school in Brandon, Man. School fires also killed at least 40 students.
Disease, particularly tuberculosis, was the main cause of death for likely thousands of children who attended residential schools.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) unveiled two volumes and a summary of its final report which is expected to be released later this year. One volume was titled, What We Have Learned, and the other was titled, The Survivors Speak
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