Names of priests who served in residential schools made public

The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) has released a list of 140 priests and brothers who worked in Canada’s residential school system as part of the Oblates, a Catholic missionary religious group. This new research, out today, is the result of years of work between the NCTR and the Oblates of OMI Lacombe […]

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Untangling Mark Carney’s father’s ties to Fort Smith, N.W.T., Indian day school

It was March 1965, and Catholic educator Robert J. Carney had gone on CBC Radio to discuss his work as a federal day school principal in the Northwest Territories. Today, it’s an interview some may find jarring.  “Mr. Carney, at the teachers conference not long ago, you told about a program you have working at the […]

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Agnes Benn’s death and the hidden history of Birtle residential school’s predatory principal

The night was mild and the March moon bright when Agnes Benn fled the Birtle Indian Residential School through the playroom window, a few weeks after she told a friend that the principal, Henry Currie, put his hand over her mouth so she wouldn’t scream in his office. Helen MacKay, the teacher on duty that […]

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Coroner’s probe finds 220 additional deaths at Ontario residential schools

An Ontario coroner’s investigation has identified 220 additional deaths linked to Indian residential schools in the province — deaths that were previously unknown to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission or the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR). The NCTR’s memorial register lists 436 documented deaths at Ontario residential schools, so the confirmation of 220 […]

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