“Then the priest took that baby and threw it into the furnace alive. You could hear it cry ‘Uhh!’ and there was a ‘pop’ and you could smell its flesh cooking.”- Irene Favel, describing the incineration of a newborn native child at the Catholic Muscowequan Indian residential school in Saskatchewan in the spring of 1944
• “They ran out of ground to do any more burials, so they started burning the kids’ bodies. The priests got us to do it at night so the smell wouldn’t be so noticeable. But everybody knew.” – Geronimo Henry, survivor of the Anglican Mohawk Indian residential school in Brantford, Ontario from 1957 to 1966
• “They were tiny, those two little skulls. Baby skulls, right there in the school ovens. I still get afraid thinking about it. The Principal said we’d get burned up too if we told anybody.” – Lillian Shirt, describing finding children’s remains at the United Church’s Edmonton Indian Residential school in the fall of 1963