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The history • 149Indian Affairs, 1944, 177; Canada, Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs, 1945,190; Canada, Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs, 1946, 231; Canada, AnnualReport of the Department of Indian Affairs, 1947, 236; Canada, Annual Report of the Departmentof Indian Affairs, 1948, 234; Canada, Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs,1949, 215; Canada, Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs, 1950, 86–87; Canada,Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs, 1951, 34–35; Canada, Annual Report ofthe Department of Indian Affairs, 1952, 74–75; Canada, Annual Report of the Department ofIndian Affairs, 1953, 82–83; Canada, Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs, 1954,88–89; Canada, Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs, 1955, 78–79; Canada,Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs, 1956, 76–77; Canada, Annual Report of theDepartment of Indian Affairs, 1956–57, 88–89; Canada, Annual Report of the Department ofIndian Affairs, 1958, 91; Canada, Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs, 1959, 94;Canada, Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs, 1960, 94; Canada, Annual Reportof the Department of Indian Affairs, 1961, 102; Canada, Annual Report of the Department ofIndian Affairs, 1962, 73; Canada, Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs, 1963, 62.195. Canada, Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs, 1883, 96.196. TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume 6323, file 658-6, part 1, Departmentof Indian Affairs Inspector’s Report for the St. Barnabas, Indian Residential school, D. Hicks,25 September 1928. [PAR-003233]197. Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume 6205, file 468-1, part 2, S. R. McVitty to Secretary,Indian Affairs, 30 January 1928. [McVittie to Secretary, Jan 30 1928]198. TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume 6342, file 750-1, part 1, Microfilm reelC-8699, J. D. McLean to Reverend E. Ruaux, 21 June 1915. [MRY-001517] For a similar reportfrom the Battleford, Saskatchewan, school, see: Canada, Annual Report of the Department ofIndian Affairs, 1909, 349–350. For a Manitoba example, see: TRC, NRA, Library and ArchivesCanada, RG10, volume 6267, file 580-5, part 4, Joseph Hamilton Inspection Report, not dated.[DRS-000570]199. TRC, NRA, INAC – Resolution Sector – IRS Historical Files Collection – Ottawa, file 673/23-5-038, volume 1, H. L. Winter to Indian Affairs, 9 September 1932. [MRS-000138-0001]200. TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume 6327, file 660-1, part 1, J. D. McLeanto Rev. J. Hugonard, 30 May 1911. [PLD-007442]201. TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume 6422, file 869-1, part 2, R. H. Cairns,inspector to J. D. McLean, 5 January 1915. [COQ-000390]202. TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume 6431, file 877-1, part 2, “Extract fromReport of Mr. Inspector Cairns dated September 5th and 6th, 1928 on the Alberni IndianResidential School.” [ABR-001591]203. TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume 6001, file 1-1-1, part 3, “Departmentof Indian Affairs, Schools Branch,” 31 March 1935. [SRS-000279]204. For a British Columbia example, see: TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume6431, file 877-1, part 1, A. W. Neill to A. W. Vowell, 8 July 1909. [ABR-007011-0001] For a Manitobaexample, see: TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume 6262, file 578-1,part 4, W. M. Graham to Secretary, Indian Affairs, 4 February 1922. [ELK-000299]205. For example, a 1936 United Church document on First Nations education policy stated thatthe staff of all United Church schools should be composed of people who had a “Christianmotive, or, in other words, a missionary purpose coupled with skill in some particular fieldto teach his specialty to the Indians.” Staff members were expected to be “closely related to