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150 • Truth & Reconciliation Commissionand actively interested in the work of the nearest United Church,” and be acquainted with,and sympathetic to, “the religious education programme of the United Church.” Having laidout these fairly specific requirements, the policy document added that “some minimumeducational qualifications for staff members should be outlined.” TRC, NRA, United ChurchArchives, Acc. 83.050C, box 144-21, “Statement of Policy Re Indian Residential Schools,” June1936. [UCC-050004]206. For an example of the link between low pay and unqualified teachers, see: TRC, NRA, Libraryand Archives Canada, RG10, volume 6039, file 160-1, part 1, Martin Benson, Memorandum,15 July 1897, 4, 25. [100.00108]207. TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume 4041, file 334503, F. H. Paget to FrankPedley, 25 November 1908, 55. [RCA-000298]208. TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume 6431, file 877-1, part 1, A. W. Vowellto Secretary, Indian Affairs, 14 July 1909. [ABR-007011-0000]209. Canada, Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs, 1955, 51.210. TRC, NRA, DIAND, file 1/25-1, volume 22, R. F. Davey to Bergevin, 15 September 1959, 3.[AEMR-019616]211. Canada, Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs, 1903, 342–343. For other examplesof the emphasis on religious training in the schools, see: Canada, Annual Report of theDepartment of Indian Affairs, 1887, 27–28; Canada, Annual Report of the Department ofIndian Affairs, 1910, 433–434; Canada, Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs,1890, 119; Canada, Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs, 1900, 323. Canada,Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs, 1901, 317, 320.212. Moine, My Life in a Residential School, n.p.213. TRC, NRA, The Presbyterian Church in Canada Archives, Toronto, ON, Tyler BjornsonFile, ‘Presbyterian Research,’ “Presbyterian Indian Residential School Staff Handbook,” 1.[IRC-041206]214. For Kelly, see: Morley, Roar of the Breakers, 57, 158. For Ahenakew, see: Ahenakew, Voicesof the Plains Cree, 14–24. For Kennedy, see: Canada, Annual Report of the Department ofIndian Affairs, 1902, 194. For Dion, see: Dion, My Tribe the Crees, 156–163. For Johnson, see:Johnston, Buckskin & Broadcloth, 46. For Lickers, see: “Norman Lickers First Ontario IndianLawyer,” Brantford Expositor, November 18, 1938, quoted in Briggs, “Legal Professionalism,” 2.215. Canada, Special Joint Committee, 1947, 747.216. TRC, AVS, David Charleson, Statement to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada,Deroche, British Columbia, 20 January 2010, Statement Number: 2011-5043.217. TRC, AVS, Isabelle Whitford, Statement to the Truth and Reconciliation Commissionof Canada, Keeseekoowenin First Nation, Manitoba, 28 May 2010, Statement Number:S-KFN-MB-01-004.218. TRC, AVS, Betsy Olson, Statement to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada,Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 21 June 2012, Statement Number: 2011-4378.219. TRC, AVS, Leona Agawa, Statement to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada,Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, 6 November 2010, Statement Number: 01-ON-4-6NOV10-006.220. Canada, Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs, 1921, 28.221. TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume 6014, file 1-1-6 MAN, part 1, DuncanCampbell Scott to Mr. Meighen, 1 June 1920. [NCA-002403]222. Canada, Special Joint Committee, Minutes of Evidence, D. F. Brown Presiding, 15 April 1947,483–484.