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Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) | Commission de vérité et réconciliation (CVR)

Collected by: Library and Archives Canada | Bibliothèque et Archives Canada

Archived since: Nov, 2015

Description:

Library and Archives Canada's (LAC) Truth and Reconciliation Commission Web Archive provides access to archival copies of the websites of organizations connected with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC), either as active partners at national events or through initiatives to support commemoration. The collection was curated in collaboration with the University of Winnipeg Library, the University of Manitoba Libraries, and the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR). For more information, please see LAC’s TRC Web Archive website: http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/aboriginal-heritage/Pages/truth-reconciliation-commission-web-archive.aspx. / Les archives Web de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada (BAC) concernant la Commission de vérité et réconciliation (CVR) procurent un accès aux copies d'archives de sites Web appartenant à des organisations ayant un lien avec la CVR, soit en qualité de partenaires à part entière dans des événements nationaux ou par l'intermédiaire d'initiatives ayant pour but de soutenir la commémoration. La collection a été préparée et organisée en collaboration avec la bibliothèque de l'Université de Winnipeg, les bibliothèques de l'Université du Manitoba et le Centre national pour la vérité et la réconciliation (CNVR). Pour plus d’informations, veuillez consulter le site Web de BAC pour les archives Web concernant la CVR: http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/fra/decouvrez/patrimoine-autochtone/Pages/archives-web-commission-verite-reconciliation.aspx.

Subject:   Society & Culture

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Title: ‘Where I learned to fight and cheat and steal’: Six Nations wants to save longest-running residential school

URL: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/where-i-learned-to-fight-and-cheat-and-steal-six-nations-wants-to-save-longest-running-residential-school/

Description: This article describes the former Mohawk Institute on Six Nations territory near Brantford and the community's fight to preserve Canada's longest-running residential school.

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Title: Project of Heart

URL: http://projectofheart.ca/

Description: Project of Heart is an interactive artistic project that seeks to examine the legacy of the IRS system and commemorate the lives of the thousands of children who died in residential schools. The project was present at the TRC's national events. Certain pages of the website can be toggled to French.

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Title: Walking Without our Sisters

URL: http://walkingwithoursisters.ca/

Description: The website for a commemorative art installation for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women of Canada and the US. The installation was exhibited as part of the TRC's national events.

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Title: Watch now: Gord Downie's The Secret Path

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/beta/arts/secretpath/gord-downie-s-secret-path-airs-on-cbc-october-23-1.3802197

Description: Presented in the Arts section of the CBC website, this page features the full two hour video of Gord Downie and Jeff Lemire's animated film "Secret Path," plus documentary footage and a panel discussion. The combined film and documentary with discussion panel originally aired on CBC television on Sunday, 23 October 2016.

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Title: Meet the journalist who inspired Gord Downie and Joseph Boyden to write about Chanie Wenjack

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/ian-adams-gord-downie-1.3813737

Description: In 1967, Ian Adams wrote "The Lonely Death of Charlie Wenjack" for Maclean's magazine. In the fall of 2016, two Canadian cultural icons are crediting it as the source of inspiration for new works that tell the story of Wenjack's death after running away from residential school.

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Title: Gord Downie's Secret Path brings hope to Chanie Wenjack's family, 50 years after boy's death

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/wenjack-family-response-secrect-path-1.3808589

Description: Chanie Wenjack is the subject of Gord Downie's new multimedia project, Secret Path, which includes a solo album, a graphic novel and an animated film. Wenjack's sister Pearl Wenjack says the change she has been seeking for 50 years is finally happening.

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Title: Residential Schools: Promises Of Reconciliation Saved In Bentwood Box

URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/05/30/residential-schools-prom_n_7474608.html

Description: The bentwood box present at each national TRC event represents the commitment to achieving reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples.

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Title: Gord Downie’s not-so-Secret Path to truth and reconciliation

URL: http://www.macleans.ca/culture/arts/gord-downies-not-so-secret-path-to-truth-and-reconciliation/

Description: On October 21, 2016 Gord Downie performed "Secret Path" at Roy Thompson Hall in Toronto. The event showcased the album, graphic novel, and animated film that tell the story of Chanie Wenjack, a 12-year-old boy from Ogoki Post.

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Title: The Runaways Project: Help us tell these stories

URL: http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/the-runaways-project-help-us-tell-these-stories/

Description: During its exhaustive investigation,  the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada uncovered evidence of at least 32 children who lost their lives while attempting to run away from residential schools. Maclean's magazine is listing the names and known details of those runaway children who did not survive and seeks public assistance in making more stories known. Article includes a link to the first story in the series.

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Title: The lonely death of Chanie Wenjack

URL: http://www.macleans.ca/society/the-lonely-death-of-chanie-wenjack/

Description: In 1967, a Maclean’s cover story told the tragic tale of Chanie Wenjack, an Indigenous boy who died after running away from his residential school in northern Ontario.

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Title: Getting the whole story of Shingwauk school

URL: http://www.saultstar.com/2009/08/26/getting-the-whole-story-of-shingwauk-school

Description: Published 26 August 2009. Justice Murray Sinclair, chair of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission, cites the Shingwauk Project as a possible model to be used for other schools and other regions.

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Title: Gord Downie’s Secret Path delivers on its heavy ambition

URL: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/gord-downies-secret-path-delivers-on-its-heavy-ambition/article32407765/

Description: Gord Downie brings attention to the history of residential schools with the 10-song album Secret Path and accompanying graphic novel by Jeff Lemire.

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Title: Truth, in hope of reconciliation: Gord Downie tells the tragic tale of Chanie Wenjack

URL: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/truth-in-hopes-of-reconciliation-gord-downie-tells-the-tragic-tale-of-chanie-wenjack/article32437308/

Description: A review of Gord Downie's inaugural performance of the Secret Path at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, 18 October 2016.

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Title: Royals to see powerful residential schools monument on B.C. visit

URL: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/royals-to-see-powerful-residential-schools-monument-on-bc-visit/article31892715/

Description: Published 15 September 2016. "When the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visit British Columbia this month, they will come face to face with a powerful monument to a devastating consequence of colonization. The Witness Blanket is a beautiful piece of art about one of Canada’s ugliest chapters: the residential school system."

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Title: All who died at residential schools should be named, bodies located: report

URL: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/all-who-died-at-indian-residential-schools-should-be-named-bodies-located-report/article27750888/

Description: The TRC's final report states that it is time to know and make known the names of all students who died in the former Indian Residential Schools System.

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Title: Can you hear Gord Downie's call for reconciliation?

URL: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/can-you-hear-gord-downies-call-for-reconciliation/article31834821/

Description: Ry Moran, director of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, expresses hope that Gord Downie's efforts will help Canada and the NCTR implement some of the TRC's calls to action.

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Title: National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation

URL: https://nctr.ca

Description: Dedicated website for the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba. Resource also available in French.

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Title: Flickr - Project of the Heart

URL: https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectofheart/

Description: This Flickr site lists all images from http://projectofheart.ca/.

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Title: Gord Downie: Exclusive Interview [Video]

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i51CPPminbM

Description: Canadian musician Gord Downie speaks with CBC broadcaster Peter Mansbridge about his cancer diagnosis and why he's focusing on Indigenous issues with his "Secret Path" project.

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