Michael McLeod, who is believed to be the only current MP who attended residential school, was not surprised at the news from Kamloops. In Fort Providence, 'They found where the graves were,' he says of people in the community who've done work to recover the names of the dead.
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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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