This has been a known hoax basically since its inception. Researchers used sophisticated imaging techniques to find shadows of nothing, but the media was thirsty for a damaging story against colonialism and the Roman Catholic Church, and hyped up this myth of thousands of dead children who were supposedly abandoned to oblivion by the sisters, religious, clergy, and laymen who cared for their very lives, educated them as best they knew how, and upheld their dignity, even if the colonial government was indifferent to it.<p>This was such a realistic hoax that the Church herself bought into it, and the Holy Father himself visited the sites in Canada, on an "apology tour", and directly and unambiguously apologized for atrocities which never, ever happened.<p>It's humiliating for faithful people like me, when our history is admittedly sprinkled with troubles, that fake news would gain currency and even be the catalyst for hate crimes, such as the vicious and vengeful arson and destruction of historic Catholic churches.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Canadian_church_burnings" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Canadian_church_burnings</a><p><a href="https://nypost.com/2021/07/12/us-media-shamefully-justified-a-string-of-canadian-church-burnings/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://nypost.com/2021/07/12/us-media-shamefully-justified-...</a><p><a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/254419/archbishop-mourns-loss-of-historic-church-in-alberta-canada-destroyed-by-arson" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/254419/archbishop-mo...</a>