Current Problems

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Catholic organizations continue refusal to hand over residential school records

June 1, 2018

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

St. Annes and Sister of Charity: cite historical inaccuracies in records as reason for refusal to comply. (CBC)