LibGuides: Indigenous Studies: Residential Schools

Residential Schools - Relevant Resources

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) website
TRC Calls to Action
Statement of Apology by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Behalf of the Government of Canada to Former Students of the Newfoundland and Labrador Residential Schools
Delivered in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, on November 24, 2017.
Statement of Apology by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to former students of Indian Residential Schools
Delivered in the House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, on June 11, 2008.
Statement of Reconciliation by the Honourable Jane Stewart, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.
The Statement was part of the Address by the Minister on the occasion of the unveiling of "Gathering Strength — Canada’s Aboriginal Action Plan". Delivered January 7, 1998.
Statement of Apology- University of British Columbia
Apology to victims of residential schools by University of British Columbia President Santa Ono - April 9, 2018.

Publications about Residential Schools

Canada's Residential Schools - Final Report (volumes 1-6) by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Call Number: E 96.5 T78 2015
ISBN: 0773546499
Publication Date: 2015-12-09
Canada's Residential Schools - Missing Children and Unmarked Burials by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Staff
Call Number: E 96.5 T78 2015 v. 4
ISBN: 9780773546578
Publication Date: 2015-12-09
Out of the Depths: the experiences of Mi'kmaw children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia by Isabelle Knockwood
Call Number: E 99 M6 K66 2001
ISBN: 9781552667293
Publication Date: 2001
Indian School Road: Legacies of the Shubenacadie Residential School by Chris Benjamin
Call Number: E 96.6 S58 B45 2014
ISBN: 1771082135
Publication Date: 2014
The Education of Augie Merasty by Joseph Auguste Merasty; David Carpenter
Call Number: E 96.5 M47 2015
ISBN: 9780889773691
Publication Date: 2015-02-08
A Cultural Sociology of Anglican Mission and the Indian Residential Schools in Canada: the long road to apology by Eric Taylor Woods
Call Number: E 96.5 W66 2016
ISBN: 9781137486707
Publication Date: 2016-07-20
Speaking My Truth: reflections on reconciliation & residential school by selected by Shelagh Rogers, Mike DeGagné, Jonathan Dewar.
Call Number: E 96.5 S64 2012a
ISBN: 0988127423(pbk.)
Publication Date: 2012
From Truth to Reconciliation: transforming the legacy of residential schools by edited by Marlene Brant Castellano, Linda Archibald, Mike DeGagné.
Call Number: E 96.5 T78 2011 v.1
ISBN: 9781897285596
Publication Date: 2011
Response, Responsibility, and Renewal: Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Journey by edited by Gregory Younging, Jonathan Dewar, Mike DeGagné
Call Number: E 96.5 T78 2011 v.2
ISBN: 9781897285725
Publication Date: 2009
The Mush Hole: life at two Indian residential schools by compiled by Elizabeth Graham
Call Number: E 96.6 M65 M87 1997
ISBN: 0968317901
Publication Date: 1997
Children of the Broken Treaty: Canada's lost promise and one girl's dream by Charlie Angus
Call Number: E 96.65 O58 A54 2015
ISBN: 9780889774018
Publication Date: 2015-08-22

Indigenous Studies

The Residential School Experience of Chanie Wenjack

We Were Children (trailer, NFB film, 2012)

Residential Schools - Relevant Resources

Publications about Residential Schools