Exploring Theme: "Difficulties in accessing residential school records"

CBC: Accessing records is one of the biggest challenges in locating unmarked burials and identifying missing children from residential schools, survivors and experts say. “The current systems and structures are failing us,” said Kimberly Murray, special interlocutor for missing children and unmarked graves and burial sites associated with residential schools, in her closing remarks following the inaugural...

CBC – Raymond Frogner, head of archives for the NCTR, will be visiting the Rome archives of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate to review and digitize residential school-related records. He said the NCTR is still negotiating with the Oblates to access the personnel files of priests and residential school staff. He said the Oblates are...

Some Catholic orders still withholding promised residential school records: Grey Nuns: missing 3,000 photos and litigation records Oblates of Grandin: missing historical records Sisters of St. Anne & Sisters of Charity: two Catholic orders refused to sign a waiver allowing Ottawa to transfer the records CBC: Grey Nuns want the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) at The...