Historical context · Document / PDF
Canada's Residential Schools: The Métis Experience
The Commission's dedicated Métis volume addresses distinct policy and student experiences, including a chapter on Île-à-la-Crosse in Saskatchewan. It helps readers avoid treating First Nations and Métis residential-school histories as interchangeable.
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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
- Métis
Read with context
The Métis experience has distinct institutional and legal histories. Do not infer that all schools or students were covered identically by settlement arrangements.
Questions to investigate
- Why did the Commission prepare a dedicated Métis volume?
- Read the Île-à-la-Crosse chapter and identify its stated sources and limits.
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 97-page PDF; title, volume 3, 2015 date, public-domain statement and Île-à-la-Crosse contents entry read.
Copy-ready citation
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada; National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. Canada's Residential Schools: The Métis Experience. 2015 report; NCTR-hosted edition. https://nctr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Volume_3_Metis_English_Web.pdf. Record checked 2026-09-30.
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