Current Problems

National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (77-78)

Catholic Orders

June 1, 2018

Some Catholic orders still withholding promised residential school records:

Grey Nuns

Missing 3,000 photos and litigation records. The Grey Nuns want the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) at The University of Manitoba to bear all travel and associated costs to duplicate the records even though the court order from the Settlement Agreement requires all parties to turn over all records in their possession.

Oblates of Grandin

NCTR waiting to receive what are known as codex historicus files — diary-like records — of life at residential schools

Sisters of St. Anne (Victoria)

The Sisters of St. Ann refused to sign a waiver allowing Ottawa to transfer the records citing historical inaccuracies in records as reason for refusal to comply. The centre is missing narratives for the Kuper Island, St. Mary’s and Kamloops residential schools where the order operated.

Sisters of Charity (Edmonton)

The Sisters of Charity of Providence refused to sign a waiver allowing Ottawa to transfer the records citing historical inaccuracies in records as reason for refusal to comply. The centre is missing school narratives for the Assumption, Fort Vermilion, Grouard and the St. Augustine-Sturgeon Lake residential schools where the order operated.