Rachel Gilmore Comes to Rosie Barton's Defence
But she is misinformed and misinforming
As shown above, Rachel Gilmore stepped up to defend CBC’s Rosie Barton, who has been caught in a live-on-air error, compounded by her dismissive attitude toward Rebel Media’s reporter Drea Humphrey. Humphrey had asked a perfectly polite and important question of NDP leader Jagmeet Singh about the church burnings that cascaded across Canada, following the Kamloops First Nation’s claim of having found “human remains” and “mass graves/unmarked graves” of 215 children on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. Some 50% of Canadians are Christians, thus, this domestic terrorism issue is important for them, as well as for the rest of us who once enjoyed a Canada of peace, order and good government - for all.
Regarding Gilmore’s first claim, indeed, a partial jawbone had been found in Saskatchewan.
However, according to the Saskatchewan Coroner’s office, the forensic anthropologist could not identify the gender or ethnicity, but could confirm it was ‘historic’ - meaning, unrelated to any known, outstanding potential missing person or criminal issue.
Here is the letter sent to Nina Green.
Gilmore also references the finding of “the remains of a child under five were found at a former school near Edmonton.”
Since she was not specific, one may assume she is talking about Blue Quills - formerly Saddle Lake First Nation. It is true that remains were found, but not yet identified as Indigenous.
The Indian Residential School was built long after the Sacred Heart Mission and graveyard were established. However, the partial remains became newsworthy when the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) became involved, and many people watched a Zoom session with Dr. Soren Blau of the ICMP offering comments on the photographs she had seen. However, Dr. Blau did not appear to know the context of the find - a community graveyard - not a school graveyard. From a previous article of mine on this topic: The Blue Quills Boneyard Might Host MY Relatives
And another excerpt of that article:
The Oblate records* show that in 1919 there was a typhoid epidemic that killed two nuns, five children and an unknown number of people on the Saddle Lake reserve.
I wrote a previous article on this topic on Feb. 04, 2024, titled: “Biting the Hand that Feeds the Blood Libel at Blue Quills and Beyond.” It starts off like this:
Tax dollars don’t come from the government. They come from working Canadians. About ten million Canadians are Catholic and more than 53% of Canadians are Christians (percentage includes Catholics).
So, perhaps it is time to stop the blood libel against Catholic and Christian denominations, the nuns, priests and clergy, who operated the network of Indian Residential Schools, until or unless there is actual evidence of the alleged “mass graves” or “genocide” at these former schools. Especially as it is tax funding — significantly drawn from Canadian Christians — which is funding the genocide fantasy.
In the case of Blue Quills, by their own statements, those involved have inadvertently disturbed the graves of the former community cemetery. This was undoubtedly shocking, but they have continued to do so, and now have morphed the various remains they’ve dug up into claims of nefarious acts; they have mistakenly counted all the children who died in the sacramental records of the early mission as if they were Indian Residential School attendees. As Nina’s work with the Department of Indian Affairs records and the census of the time noted above shows, there were no children of that age at the school.
Most important, there is no list of names of missing children.
Rachel Gilmore says Rosie Barton was correct, but Gilmore cites two instances where there is no definitive analysis that the remains in question were of Indigenous children. Since no one has seen any in situ images of where these bones were found, in either place, and since the chain of custody has not been properly observed, it is difficult to conclude with certainty that these bones are related to the Indian Residential Schools in any way.
It is the on-going media hype related to the Indian Residential Schools issue that is distorting historical fact. Gilmore’s misinformed defence of Barton’s original error is a great example of how media personalities who are not historians muddy the waters even more.
Please read my report:
Confronting Indian Residential School Confabulation and Media Irresponsibility
CBC quietly issued a “correction” on their website regarding Barton’s claim. She should be forced to publicly apologize to Humphrey.
CBC has been largely responsible for spreading a considerable amount of misinformation regarding 'graves' at residential schools. Perhaps the most egregious was describing them as mass graves right after the 'discovery'. It had to correct and walk back on after it was pointed out that a 'mass grave' was akin to the types of pits the Nazis threw its victims in after a mass murder and buried them, but the damage was done and Canada became known internationally as a genocidal nation. Now, I know, thanks to Google, you won't find much mention of that anywhere, but I remember it quite well because I was aghast at the first mention of it. But of course CBC has perpetuated this myth of graves and implied misconduct on the part of those who worked at the residential schools. They have also taken great pains to essentially ignore or try to justify the burning of some 100 Christian churches across the country in response to the lies told about those 'graves'. For Rosemary Barton to even venture into this issue that by calling Drea Humphrey and Rebel News the purveyors of 'misinformation' takes more than nerve, it also take stupidity and that goes double for Rachel Gilmore.