28-09-2024 01:15 via edmonton.ctvnews.ca

Reconciliation through reclamation: Alberta woman searching for families of unclaimed remains from Edmonton's Camsell Indian Hospital

A northern Alberta woman is hoping her family's history can help reunite other families with loved ones laid to rest far from home. In 2019, Shannon Cornelsen was handed a box of her grandfather's journals documenting his time as an Indian Affairs agent Norman McGinnis was famous in his family for being a devoted notetaker, filling 27 books with the details of his workdays at the Stony Plain Indian Reservation (now Enoch Cree Nation) between 1954 and 1980. Entries offer a look at where he went a
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