‘There are bodies here’: survivors braced as search begins at Canada’s oldest residential school

Long-overdue search for unmarked graves at notorious Mohawk Institute prompts renewed calls for full transparency

• The shameful history of Canada's residential schools - mapped

The yellow tape of the police cordon snapped and fluttered as a chill breeze swept over the grounds of what was once one of Canada's most notorious residential schools.

The entire 500-acre property is now being treated as massive a crime scene as the long-overdue search finally begins for the children who were sent to live here - but never returned home.