Exploring Theme: "Commitment to provide records to NCTR"

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...

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...

The Globe and Mail: The Manitoba government signed an agreement Monday to provide greater access to the death certificates of Indigenous children who died at residential schools. The agreement allows the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation to request the documents from the provincial Vital Statistics Branch. Until now, the documents were available to family...

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...

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...

Globe and Mail – Ontario says it has found about 1,800 death registrations of school-aged Indigenous children that it will release to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, amid growing calls for governments and churches to hand over records that shed light on the residential-school system. The 1,800 death registrations span the past 70...

The Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre will house accounts of survivors that were collected by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The new centre aimed at educating the public about the devastation of the residential school system opens at the University of British Columbia. The two-storey centre was funded by $5.5 million in donations....

Understanding the Legacy of Residential Schools New Funding: Up to $20 million over three years, including up to $1.4 million in 2016-17 to support the revitalization of the Mohawk Institute Residential School. Identify death records of “lost children” who attended residential school and contribute to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation archives, locate burial sites and repatriate remains...