Exhumation of Joliette, Que. soccer field hopes to find baby, 53 years later – CTV News
June 08, 2026
An Indigenous family in Quebec is hoping to find the body of their long-lost baby sister after receiving an exhumation order from the provincial government last month.
Lauréanna Echaquan was two-and-a-half months old when her family was informed of her death from pneumonia at the Saint-Eusèbe Hospital in Joliette in 1973.
“My mother told me when she arrived in Joliette, she went to the funeral home,” Viviane Echaquan-Niquay told CTV News a few days after the exhumation request was approved.
