![\\"logo\\"](\\"/img/logo-dpa-factchecking.svg\\"/) *About ![\\"IFCN](\\"/img/ifcn-certificate.png\\"/) ![\\"EFCSN](\\"/img/efcsn- certificate.png\\"/) ## Old conspiracy theory # Queen Elizabeth never attended Kamloops boarding school 29.12.2023, 15:07 (CET) The British royal family is a popular subject for tall tales; It one worse than the other. This story is horrifying, but queen Elizabeth II has little to do with that. According to a Dutch social media message, the now deceased Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Philip are responsible for the disappearance of ten children. In 1964 they would move into the town of Kamloops visited Canada, and there with the children of an 'indigenous school' had a picnic. "The children were never found alive either." written. Is this correct or is it just a royal horror story? ## Judgement There was a boarding school for indigenous children in Kamloops, where a terrible history has happened. But there is no evidence of that Elizabeth and Philip ever visited it, or picnicked with students and they made to disappear. ## Facts The story about the picnic and missing children has been going around since 2010 the internet, according to 2021 fact checks from Politifact and Snopes. Queen Elizabeth II would visit the city with her husband Philip in September 1964 We visited Kamloops and the local Indian Residential School have brought. That was a boarding school for First Nations children. In the Such boarding schools were established throughout the country by the Church and Canadian government. The intention was to educate, convert and engage indigenous children adapt to Euro-Canadian society. The children were forced to do so community, and were no longer allowed to speak their own language, for example speak. There are many terrible stories about the schools. About that later more. First back to Elizabeth II: there is no documentation whatsoever that the queen visited the school. The only clue is a testimony of one William Arnold Combes from 2010, who would have attended boarding school. He claims to have been present at the picnic in September 1964. There is no one can confirm his story. What can be verified is that the queen does not die at all in that month western Canada has been. In October 1964 she visited the big cities in the east of the country. Elizabeth II visited Kamloops in 1959 and 1971, but not the local boarding school. So the British Queen has nothing to do with the disappearance of the children. Indian Residential Schools Unfortunately, in previous centuries there were indeed children who were native boarding schools in Canada, died and disappeared. It is estimated that there were a total of 150,000 indigenous children in the 19th and 20th centuries at these boarding schools. According to the Canadian Encyclopedia, approximately 6,000 are children died in boarding schools. However, exact figures are difficult to obtain, because the documentation of the schools was poor and has partly disappeared due to fire, among other things. The living conditions were deplorable. Things got bad for the kids taken care of. The children died of diseases such as measles and tuberculosis malnourished and there have also been cases of drowning or suicide. This is can be read in more detail in this article from CBC News. Found mass graves When a child died, the body was returned to the parents, but not always. Not all deaths were properly documented. In May 2021 at the location of the now closed boarding school in Kamloops a mass grave containing the remains of 215 children was discovered. One month later, in June, it was located near the former Marieval Indian Residental School also discovered a mass grave. This time with 751 anonymous graves. "A painful reminder of a dark and shameful chapter in the history of our country," said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau response to the discovery of the grave in Kamloops. There is now more attention to the trauma and suffering for which this history is responsible is for. (State of play: 28.12.23) ## Left Facebook post (archived) Factcheck Politifact & Snopes (archived here & here) About Indian Residential Schools (archived) Visits from Elizabeth 1959 & 1971 (archived here, here & here) Article NOS (archived) Article CBC News I (archived) Article CBC News II (archived) Trudeau's tweet (archived) About trauma and processing (archived here & here) ### About dpa fact checks This fact check was written in the context of the Third Party Fact Checking program from Facebook/Meta. More information about this initiative can be found here. Explanation from Facebook/Meta about dealing with accounts that contain incorrect information distribution can be found here. You can send substantive comments or comments to factcheck- netherlands@dpa.com with a link to the relevant Facebook post. Please to use the correct templates for this. You will find guidelines for objections here. powered by dpa-newslab | Imprint | Privacy | About:
In 1964 Queen Elizabeth and her husband visited Kamploops Canada and had a picnic with children from a school These children subsequently disappeared and were never found alive