The RCMP logo is seen on a podium ahead of a news conference, in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Saturday, June 24, 2023. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld)
Human remains discovered by a road maintenance crew in the RM of Wallace-Woodworth are believed to be of a historical or archaeological nature.
Virden RCMP received the report at approximately 2:15 p.m. on August 26, after a crew cleaning ditches following recent flooding located two pieces of a human skull and a bone while working on Road 57 North, just east of Road 148 West.
Work stopped, RCMP were called, and a perimeter was established around the area.
A forensic anthropologist and her team were called to the scene the following morning and located a partial skull, a right shin bone and a lower left femur. The Manitoba Historic Resources Branch also searched the scene.
Carbon dating and further testing on some of the remains is being arranged, say RCMP.
