{"id":737330,"date":"2026-06-15T01:45:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T01:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/737330\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T01:45:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T01:45:46","slug":"search-for-remains-of-missing-atikamekw-baby-in-joliette-que-concludes-with-no-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/737330\/","title":{"rendered":"Search for remains of missing Atikamekw baby in Joliette, Que., concludes with no results"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Crews working to find the remains of an Atikamekw baby have concluded their search Tuesday afternoon \u2014 which did not yield the results a Manawan family was hoping for.<\/p>\n

Quebec’s Superior Court authorized exhumation work in Joliette, Que., which began Monday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was an attempt to find the body of Laureanna Echaquan.<\/p>\n

In 1973, at two months old, she was placed, alone, on a plane from Manawan bound for a hospital to treat pneumonia in Joliette, 180 kilometres away.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She never returned home.<\/p>\n

In the family\u2019s search for answers in the 50-plus years that followed, administrative discrepancies left them with more questions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This spring, Quebec Superior Court Justice Chantal Chatelain authorized the exhumation work in four sectors after the request was made by the Atikamekw family.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The search areas in Joliette were chosen for the work based on accounts from Laureanna\u2019s parents, social workers and the work of historical human remains detection dogs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But after searching all four sections surrounding a soccer field, nothing was found, resulting in this search coming to an end.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the family says they are considering the next steps,\u00a0but that the search for their loved one will continue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-737330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}