The search for children who went missing while in residential school is getting a helping hand.
Chief coroners across Canada recently agreed at a meeting to dig through their records to help solve cases of kids who died or disappeared while in school.
Kimberly Murray is the executive director of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Murray says they presented the coroners with the methods used in the Missing Children’s Project.
To date, that project — established by the TRC — has identified approximately 600 children who died while attending residential schools.
Murray says the TRC wants to establish a full registry of kids who died because they know there is more out there — noting the recent discovery of at least 100 previously unrecorded deaths in Ontario residential schools.
She adds the coroners have agreed to help them by whatever means possible.
Murray says anyone who has information to offer the TRC about a child who went missing, either through a name or circumstances in which they died, can call 1-888-872-5554.