Quebec to exhume remains of Innu boys whose families have questions about 1970 deaths
For more than 50 years, two Innu families have been haunted by the question of whether their children actually died in a Quebec hospital and whether the coffins they were given really contained their child’s remains.
The director of a Quebec association that helps Indigenous families looking for answers about children who have died or disappeared said the decision will help the families find out the truth. One was four-months-old when he died. He was admitted to the hospital with whooping cough on May 14, 1970 and died 13 days later. His body was claimed by a mortician who told the family not to open the casket before the burial. According to the exhumation request, the coroner’s report on the boy’s death is incomplete and medical records are nonexistent.
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