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Re:Canada: Hundreds of unmarked graves found at residential ... by inasio on Thursday June 24, 2021 @02:47PM (#27622151)
What time period are you talking about? The mortality rate you mention happened in 1830, but was an order of magnitude lower in the 1960s [0].

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041751/canada-all-time-...

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Re:Canada: Hundreds of unmarked graves found at residential ... by jollybean on Thursday June 24, 2021 @03:55PM (#27622993)
Most of the deaths occurred earlier in the 20th century [1]

As for the story in general ... it's not new information really. We have records of the deaths, families were notified, governments were notified, they didn't want to pay to ship the bodies so they buried them near the residences. We also knew where the graves were.

The Canadian government was aware at the time of the higher rate of deaths than normal, it was recognized as a problem, but obviously they didn't do much about it.

[1] https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/newly-discovered-b-c-gr...

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