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Canadian archivist uncovers ‘very profound’ residential school records in Rome

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residential school students in the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate archives in Rome, he knew he was looking at something important.“It did have a very historic feeling to it, very profound,” the head archivist for the Winnipeg-based Centre for Truth and Reconciliation said in a recent interview with The Canadian Press.Few archivists are able to explore the religious order’s private records in the Italian city, Frogner said.

But he spent five days early last month looking through the archives at the Oblate General House, where photos, personnel files and manuscripts describe the group’s actions around the world since its founding in 1816.That legacy includes a significant presence in Canada. ‘A new beginning’: Residential school survivors reflect on papal apology The Oblates operated 48 residential schools, including the Marieval Indian Residential School at Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan and the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, where the discovery of unmarked graves last year spurred calls for justice and transparency.Frogner pored through the archives in the former residence of an Italian nobleman.

He worked in front of a statue of the Virgin Mary and a large fresco nearby depicted Jesus and the founder of the Oblates, Eugene de Mazenod.But his interest was sparked by what was inside a set of metal drawers.“The big find for me was in the photographs.” Papal apology sparks calls to renounce 500-year-old Doctrine of Discovery There were 20 drawers of photos and three of those contained images of the order’s missions in Canada.

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