Ombash brothers (Charles and Tom) (12 and 14) Missing from Sioux Lookout, ON Canada since Oct 5, 1956

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Case reference: 2006005399​

Canada's Missing | Case details
In October 1956, Charles Ombash and his brother Tom Ombash left the Pelican Falls Residential School. They had planned to canoe back to Cat Lake, or alternately take the train to Savant Lake, get a ride to Pickle Lake, and then canoe to Cat Lake. Their family has not seen them since.

This case has 2 Missing persons

Missing from Sioux Lookout, Ontario

OMBASH, Charles​

Missing since: October 5, 1956
Year of birth: 1944
Age at disappearance: 12
Gender: Male
Bio group: Indigenous
Eye colour: Brown
Hair: Black
Build: Slender/Thin

Wearing:
Jacket
Jeans: Blue
Shirt: Cotton, Checkered

OMBASH, Tom​

Missing since: October 5, 1956
Year of birth: 1942
Age at disappearance: 14
Gender: Male
Bio group: Indigenous
Eye colour: Brown
Hair: Black
Build: Medium

Wearing:
Jacket
Jeans: Blue
Shirt: Cotton, Checkered

Continues to be searched along with 13 other missing children reports from the same school between 1926-1973.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thun...ar-residential-school-are-non-human-1.1249599

If you have information on this case, please contact any of the following:​

1. Sioux Lookout OPP OPP ONCMPUR 1-877-934-6363; 1-705-330-4144; [email protected]
   Reference Case#: RM05025069
2. Crime Stoppers: 1-800-222-TIPS(8477) or online at Submit a Tip - Canadian Crime Stoppers Association
   Crime Stoppers provides anonymous tipping
3. Send email to the National Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains at:
   [email protected]

 

[Richard]

Two boys, ages 12 and 14 are allowed to set out without adult supervision from their residential school on a trip involving a train, a vehicle and a canoe?

And there are 11 other incidents at that school involving missing children?

 

[Yellowbelly]

Two boys, ages 12 and 14 are allowed to set out without adult supervision from their residential school on a trip involving a train, a vehicle and a canoe?

And there are 11 other incidents at that school involving missing children?

Having looked up where Sioux Lookout and Cat Lake are in Ontario, I'm not surprised children kept going missing. Between the two places is 40 miles of trackless, forested wilderness! You could easily disappear into it and never be seen again.

 

[Richard]

Having looked up where Sioux Lookout and Cat Lake are in Ontario, I'm not surprised children kept going missing. Between the two places is 40 miles of trackless, forested wilderness! You could easily disappear into it and never be seen again.

All the more reason for necessary adult supervision and concern.

 

[iamshadow21]

Two boys, ages 12 and 14 are allowed to set out without adult supervision from their residential school on a trip involving a train, a vehicle and a canoe?

And there are 11 other incidents at that school involving missing children?

Nobody allowed anything - the article states that the boys ran away. Institutions of cultural genocide didn't tend to allow free movement of their inmates.

The boys either met with misadventure or violence on the way, or met their end at Pelican Falls and their remains were hidden.

MOO

 

[Yellowbelly]

Nobody allowed anything - the article states that the boys ran away. Institutions of cultural genocide didn't tend to allow free movement of their inmates.

The boys either met with misadventure or violence on the way, or met their end at Pelican Falls and their remains were hidden.

MOO

I didn't make the connection until I read your post. Wasn't there a massive scandal in Canada a few years back over how indigenous children had been treated at these Residential Schools over the decades.

So what we've got here is a series of children who've run off into the forest to try and get back home, but haven't made it.

Canadian Indian residential school system - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[iamshadow21]

I didn't make the connection until I read your post. Wasn't there a massive scandal in Canada a few years back over how indigenous children had been treated at these Residential Schools over the decades.

So what we've got here is a series of children who've run off into the forest to try and get back home, but haven't made it.

Canadian Indian residential school system - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Yeah, most kids in countries that practiced this form of genocide against indigenous children didn't get a Rabbit Proof Fence reunion with their families, just abuse, cultural alienation, and sometimes a desperately sad end at a young age, often concealed in some way by the institution or the state itself.

It's happening right now to Ukrainian kids stolen by Russia.

MOO