A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
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 […]
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 […]
Treaty One Territory, Winnipeg – The Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) is calling on Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) and Minister Patty Hajdu to stop obstructing access to the Indian Registrar and other essential records needed to complete the investigation into the deaths of First Nations children who attended Residential Schools in Manitoba. […]
Raymond Derby never knew much about his great-grandparents’ lives a century ago at an Indian boarding school in southwestern Minnesota — only that they were among the thousands of students who attended the school over a 60-year period, from 1893 to 1953. Today, however, he knows his great-grandmother was a “strong-willed” woman who ran away […]
