Historical context · Document / PDF
Canada's Residential Schools: The Legacy
This volume considers the continuing legacy of residential schools and the Commission's recommendations. Use its chapters and source notes to connect historical policies with the Commission's account of present-day institutions and responsibilities.
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- Publisher / custodian
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada; National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
- Source date
- 2015 report; NCTR-hosted edition
- Source type
- Historical context
- Format
- Document / PDF
- Regions
- Canada, Saskatchewan
- Peoples / communities
- First Nations, Inuit, Métis
Read with context
A 2015 report; present-day measurements and implementation claims require current verification. Avoid reducing Indigenous lives to harm or deficits.
Questions to investigate
- Distinguish a historical finding, a present-day finding and a recommendation in the report.
- What evidence does the Commission use to connect past policies and continuing effects?
Access and reuse
- Access
- link-only
- Rights / reuse
- The NCTR identifies its TRC reports as public domain and freely duplicable. This entry links to the report; preserve full authorship, context and credits when preparing any permitted reuse. Publisher rights information ↗
- Record checked
- 2026-09-30
Opened NCTR-linked 391-page PDF and report-index description.
Copy-ready citation
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada; National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. Canada's Residential Schools: The Legacy. 2015 report; NCTR-hosted edition. https://nctr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Volume_5_Legacy_English_Web.pdf. Record checked 2026-09-30.
Saskatchewan curriculum
These are suggested teaching connections. They do not establish full outcome coverage or Ministry approval. Review the official outcome, indicators and learner task.
Suggested connection · teacher review
SI8
Assess the impact residential schools have on First Nations communities.
Investigate documented continuing effects and responses through the Commission’s report. Pair institutional synthesis with the named Survivor and community perspectives it cites.
Candidate indicator: 4: Examine how First Nations and communities continue to deal with and heal from the abuses experienced by First Nation peoples in residential schools.
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