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A Vancouver archbishop says that apologies by local church figures for the institution’s role in Canada’s residential schools “might not be enough” in the absence of a formal apology from the pope. But he hopes they will be “accepted as gestures of goodwill.”
VANCOUVER The Royal B.C. Museum is giving some insight into what information exists in the religious archives of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. Genevieve Webber is the museum’s acting head of archives and has been processing records from the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, the missionary group that operated the school as part of the Catholic Church. Webber says the archives were acquired “a couple of years ago.” Previously, the records were stored in an archive run by the oblates in Vancouver. “When the oblates began to centralize their operations, they began to divest themselves of their records by donating them to appropriate public archives across the country,” Webber told CTV News Vancouver.
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The head of the Catholic Church in B.C. has promised that all church archives and records will be given to the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation as the band tries to identify the remains of . . .