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146 • Truth & Reconciliation Commission149. See, for example: TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG85, volume 229, file 630/158-9,part 1, Government Hostel – Chesterfield Inlet, 1929–1953, Extracts from S. J. Bailey’s Report,Eastern Arctic Patrol, 27 July 1948. [CIU-000189]150. See, for example: Davin, Report on Industrial Schools, 9.151. For an example of Métis children at a church-run boarding school, see: Erickson, “‘Bury OurSorrows in the Sacred Heart,’” 34–35.152. For an example of the Métis being viewed as ‘dangerous,’ see: Library and Archives Canada,RG10, volume 6031, “Extract from a letter dated the 19th July, 1899, from the Rev.Father Hugonard.”153. For an example, see: TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, R776-0-5 (RG55), volume 562,T.B. #252440, Clifford Sifton to Mr. Smart, 18 October 1899. [NPC-523981c]154. For an early example of this view, see: Canada, Sessional Papers 1885, number 116, 81, Memo:Hugh Richardson, 1 December 1879.155. For an example, see: Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume 6323, file 658-10, part 3, W.M. Graham to the Secretary of the Department of Indian Affairs, 5 December 1929.156. For example, it was estimated in 1936 that 80% of Métis children in Alberta received no education.Chartrand, “Métis Residential School Participation,” 41.157. Quiring, CCF Colonialism in Northern Saskatchewan; Barron, Walking in Indian Moccasins.158. For detailed treatment of the issue, see: Chartrand, Logan, and Daniels, Métis Historyand Experience.159. For examples, see: TRC, NRA, National Capital Regional Service Centre – LAC – Ottawa,volume 2, file 600-1, locator #062-94, Education of Eskimos (1949–1957), Department ofNorthern Affairs and National Resources to Northern Administration and Lands Branch, 8April 1958; [NCA-016925] TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada – Ottawa, RG85, volume1506, file 600-1-1, part 2A, J. G. Wright to Mr. Gibson, 19 November 1946. [NCA-005728]160. For a 1940 assessment of building conditions, see: TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada,RG10, volume 6012, file 1-1-5A, part 2, R. A. Hoey to Dr. McGill, 31 May 1940. [BIR-000248]161. Canada, Special Joint Committee, 1946, 3, 15.162. Canada, Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs, 1945, 168, 183; Canada, AnnualReport of the Department of Indian Affairs, 1955, 70, 76–78.163. Canada, Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs, 1949, 199.164. An Act respecting Indians, Statutes of Canada 1951, chapter 29, section 113, reproduced inVenne, Indian Acts, 350.165. Canada, Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs, 1961, 57.166. Canada, Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs, 1961, 63.167. See, for example: TRC, NRA, No document location, no document file source, The CanadianCatholic Conference, “A Brief to the Parliamentary Committee on Indian Affairs,” May 1960, 8.[GMA-001642-0000]168. Newman, Indians of the Saddle Lake Reserve, 81–87.169. For a discussion that places both child welfare and residential schools in the context of theongoing colonization of Aboriginal people, see: McKenzie and Hudson, “Native Children.”170. For an example of this assessment, see: TRC, NRA, Canadian Welfare Council and Caldwell1967, 89. [AEMR-019759]171. For examples of the link between the closure of residential schools and the increase in childrenin care, see: TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG10, box 98, Acc., 1999-01431-6, file 274/25-1-010, part 1, P. L. McGillvray to Indian Affairs Branch, 17 November 1964;