Actions and Commitments

Call to Action # 75 : Missing Children and Burial Information (71-76)

Sir Joseph Bernier School

May 31, 2021

Nunatsiaq News – There have been calls to extradite one former residential staff member who is accused of abusing Inuit children during his time in Nunavut. Father Johannes Rivoire, now 90, was known to have worked in Chesterfield Inlet, the site of the infamous Sir Joseph Bernier School. The crimes he is accused of date back to the 1960s.