The personnel records of Oblate priests who worked at residential schools in Canada are now available to survivors, Indigenous communities and researchers.
Records, information and documents will be shared after an agreement was signed Wednesday between the Oblates of Mary Immaculate and the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.
“As Oblates, we were complicit in a colonial system that harmed Indigenous people,” said Fr. Ken Thorson, head of OMI Lacombe Canada. “Now we want to do what we can to make it right."
The head of archives at the National Centre for Truth and
Reconciliation commended the Oblates, saying the order is being “much more open
than any other public archive in Canada … I appreciate their openness.”
Read my story about
this agreement in the Winnipeg Free Press.
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