Honouring the Truth Reconciling for the Future

174 • Truth & Reconciliation CommissionDecember 1954; [KNR-001380-0003] TRC, NRA, INAC – Resolution Sector – IRS HistoricalFiles Collection – Ottawa, file 961/25-2, volume 15, Admissions and Discharges – Kuper IslandResidence, Cowichan Agency, B.C., 01/08/1958–02/07/1966, Control no. 34-15 IRSRC – HistoricalFiles, J. V. Boys to Indian Commissioner for B.C., 29 January 1959; [KUP-200601] TRC,NRA, Library and Archives Canada – Edmonton, 772/25-1, volume 1, 04/60–06/70, N. Goaterto A. H. Murray, 10 March 1962; [OLD-007287-0005] TRC, NRA, INAC, file 487/18-2, volume1, “2 Boys Died from Exposure,” Kenora Miner and News, 18 December 1970; [KNR-003158-0002] TRC, NRA, INAC, file 487/18-2, volume 1, P. J. Hare to Indian Affairs, 7 December 1970.[KNR-003168]549. For the reporting to the Ontario Provincial Police, see: TRC, NRA, National Capital RegionalService Centre – LAC – Ottawa, file 494/3-3-3, volume 1, “Provincial Police Report,” G. A.McMonagle, 19 December 1956. [PLK-001205-0001] For the reporting to Indian Affairs, see:TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume 8275, file 494/6-1-014, part 5, R. F.Davey to G. Swartman, 13 November 1956. [PLK-000488]550. Porter, “Remains Found Near Residential School Are ‘Non-human,’”CBC News, 12 July 2012, http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/remains-found-near-residential-school-are-non-human-1.1249599.551. TRC, NRA, INAC – Resolution Sector – IRS Historical Files Collection – Ottawa, file 1/25-1-5-2, volume 1, “Regulations With Respect to Teaching, Education, Inspection, and Disciplinefor Indian Residential Schools, Made and Established for the Superintendent General ofIndian Affairs Pursuant to Paragraph (a) of Section 114 of the Indian Act,” 20 January 1953.[PAR-001203-0001]552. TRC, NRA, INAC – Resolution Sector – IRS Historical Files Collection – Ottawa, file 901/25-13,volume 4 (locator 156-2), J. B. Bergevin to H. B. Cotnam, 1 March 1971. [NCA-012545-0000]553. For an example from Chilliwack, British Columbia, see: TRC, NRA, Library and ArchivesCanada, RG10, volume 6422, file 869-1, part 1, Microfilm reel C-8754, J. Hall to F. Devlin, 19January 1900. [COQ-000345]554. TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume 6308, file 653-10, part 1, “Royal CanadianMounted Police Report Re: Douglas Shingoose and Donald Stevenson,” 23 February1935. [FHR-001050-0001]555. See, for examples: North-West Mounted Police, Annual Report, 1894, 52–53; TRC, NRA,Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume 3920, file 116818, C. E. Somerset to IndianCommissioner, 6 October 1896; [EDM-009788] TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada,RG10, volume 2771, file 154845, part 1, Mohawk Institute to Hayter Reed, 18 March 1896;[TAY-003510] TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume 6278, file 584-10, part 1,“RCMP Report regarding [Name redacted],” 16 October 1933. [SBR-110565-0001]556. Sutherland, Children in English-Canadian Society, 122. For examples of prosecutions, see:TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume 6278, file 584-10, part 1, A. H. L.Mellor to Deputy Superintendent General, Indian Affairs, 19 September 1935; [SBR-110607-0000] TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume 6209, file 468-10, part 1, “RoyalCanadian Mounted Police report, Re: [Names redacted],” 21 November 1937; [MER-000580-0001] TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume 6193, file 462-10, part 3, A. D.Moore to Secretary, Indian Affairs, 16 September 1940. [CRS-000507-0000]557. For examples of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s being used to return students toschool, see: TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume 6330, file 660-10, part1, R. W. Greatwood to Indian Affairs, 11 April 1930; [PLD-003278-0001] TRC, NRA, Library