Actions and Commitments: Call to Action # 77

Exploring Stakeholder: "Government of Canada"

Updates on this page: 5 (Filtered by Indigenous Group "Inuit")
 

August 4, 2023


National archives to digitize, transfer 6 million pages of Indian day school records, official says

Department head Leslie Weir says 3-year timeline for digitization is doable CBC News: Canada’s national archives is working to identify, digitize and transfer six million pages of federal Indian day school records to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR), the department head says. That kind of paper would fill multiple tractor trailers to...

June 28, 2023


New advisory committee to transfer millions of unreleased residential school documents announced

APTN News: The Trudeau government announced a new committee Wednesday that is tasked with identifying millions of unreleased residential school documents. “That’s the importance of our work here for the last two days is a plan to transition around 19 million documents outside government to an institution that will support and in this case it’s...

February 21, 2023


Cadmus Delorme to chair federal committee identifying and sharing historic residential school documents

Delorme will chair new Residential School Documents Advisory Committee CBC NEWS: Chief Cadmus Delorme of Cowessess First Nation will take charge of efforts to examine and share historic documents about residential schools in Canada. Delorme recently announced he would not seek a third term as chief of Cowessess, which is located about 140 kilometres east of Regina. Crown−Indigenous Relations...

January 20, 2022


Release of Residential School narratives

Jan. 20, 2022: CBC – The government said it did not release the documents earlier because of third-party obligations to Catholic entities, including the Sisters of St. Ann, Sisters of Charity of Providence of Western Canada, Sisters of the Presentation and La Corporation Episcopale Catholique Romaine De Prince Albert. The 11 narratives being released to the...

1970


The Indian Residential Schools Adjudication Secretariat

The Indian Residential Schools Adjudication Secretariat has launched a program to alert former students who made claims of abuse at Indian Residential Schools about their options on what happens to the records from their claims. The Secretariat has set up a new website, http://www.MyRecordsMyChoice.ca, where claimants can find information about their options. On September 19, 2027, records...

Filter This Page

chevron_rightby Indigenous Group


Explore Other Stakeholders