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National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
The Commission was mandated to create a national research centre, which would hold all the material created and received as part of its work. The centre is intended to be accessible to Survivors, their families, and communities, as well as to the general public. The Commission held a forum in March 2011 to consult with national and international experts on establishing such a centre. This informed the Commission’s subsequent call for proposals to house the centre.
The Commission reviewed a number of proposals for housing the research centre and, in June 2013, announced that the University of Manitoba had been selected to become the permanent host of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR).
The NCTR is governed by a Trust Deed and Administrative Agreement signed by the Commission and the university. A Governing Circle and Survivors Circle play important roles in ensuring the promises undertaken to Survivors are honoured.
The NCTR also works in direct partnership with a growing number of universities, colleges, and other organizations across the country, including: the University of British Columbia, the University of Winnipeg, l’Université de St. Boniface, Carleton University, the University of Regina, Lakehead University, University College of the North, Algoma University, Red River College, the Archives of Manitoba, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, the National Association of Friendship Centres, the Legacy of Hope Foundation, and le Centre du patrimoine.
The goal is to create the broadest possible network from coast to coast to coast.
Officially opening in the summer of 2015, the NCTR will be the permanent home for all statements, documents, and other materials gathered by the Commission. In future, it will house other Indigenous collections.
The NCTR will encourage and engage in respectful dialogue on many issues that hinder or foster reconciliation. It will ensure that:
• Survivors and their families have access to their own history;
• educators can share the residential school history with new generations of students;
• researchers can delve more deeply into the residential school experience and legacy;
• the public can access historical records and other materials to help foster reconciliation and healing; and
• the history and legacy of the residential school system are never forgotten.
The search to understand the truth about Indian residential schools has taken the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to all parts of Canada. The Commission has listened to thousands of Survivors give their accounts of the residential school experience and how that experience has shaped their lives. The Commission has explored what the legacy of the residential school system has meant to Aboriginal people in particular and to Canada as a whole. This journey led the Commission to chart some of the pathways described in this report that may lead eventually to reconciliation within this country.¨
National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
77. We call upon provincial, territorial, municipal, and
community archives to work collaboratively with the
National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation to identify
and collect copies of all records relevant to the history
and legacy of the residential school system, and to
provide these to the National Centre for Truth and
Reconciliation.
78. We call upon the Government of Canada to commit
to making a funding contribution of $10 million over
seven years to the National Centre for Truth and
Reconciliation, plus an additional amount to assist
communities to research and produce histories of
their own residential school experience and their
involvement in truth, healing, and reconciliation.
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