Centre for Truth and Reconciliation to Release Names of Residential School Priests
- The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation will release the names of 140 priests or brothers from residential schools, including their personnel files and school names.
- Raymond Frogner, head of archives, said the files are a "vital" resource for families researching survivors and that names will be "updated on an ongoing basis."
- The centre aims to create a central resource to understand the colonial history of residential schools, with Rev. Ken Thorson expressing gratitude for the effort to memorialize survivors' experiences.
- Harry Bone stated that knowledge and honoring the truth are essential for communities dealing with the painful legacy of residential schools.
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Researchers publish names of priests who served in Canadian residential schools
The former Kuper Island Indian Residential School, 1941. / Credit: Public domain CNA Staff, May 30, 2025 / 17:23 pm (CNA). Canadian researchers and advocates have published a list of more than 100 priests and religious workers who served in the country’s controversial Indigenous “residential schools” that operated there for more than a century. The National Center for Truth and Reconciliation — a nonprofit that collects and publishes information…

Centre for Truth and Reconciliation to release names of residential school priests
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Names of priests who served in residential schools made public
The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation has identified 140 priests who worked in Canada’s residential schools to help survivors and families find answers.
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NCTR, May 29 2025 TREATY 1 TERRITORY, WINNIPEG, May 29, 2025 – The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) and the Oblates of OMI Lacombe Canada (the Oblates) continue their collaborative efforts to ensure residential school Survivors, their families, and communities have access to critical historical Oblate documents. For several years, the NCTR has worked in collaboration with OMI Lacombe to acquire Oblate residential school record…
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