The resort is located on plain of the St. Mary's River, between the Rockies and the Purcell Mountains near Cranbrook, British Columbia.
The Kootenay Indian Residential School (composed of the St. Eugene's and St. Mary's schools), run by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate of the Roman Catholic Church, was opened in 1912, operated at the 1897-built St. Eugene Church,[1] and closed in 1970.
[5][6] Ground penetrating radar located 182 suspected unmarked graves in the community's cemetery which is adjacent to the former St. Eugene Residential School.
[7][8] In a June 30, 2021 press release, the Leadership of ʔaq̓am, a First Nations community part of the Ktunaxa Nation, indicated that unmarked graves can occur due to deterioration of wooden crosses that had traditionally been used to mark graves; the Leadership also indicated that: "it is extremely difficult to establish whether or not these unmarked graves contain the remains of children who attended the St. Eugene Residential School.
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