Indian Residential Schools

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada is part of a comprehensive response to the legacy of Indian Residential Schools as set out in the Residential Schools’ Settlement Agreement reached in May 2006. The Commission is mandated to look at activities within residential schools, as well as the impacts of the schools’ stated aim to assimilate Aboriginal children.

United Church Resources

• Reconciliation: What Does It Mean to Us? [PDF: 17 pp/157 KB]
• Truth and Reconciliation – Liturgical Resources for June 13, 2010 [PDF: 8 pp/102 KB]
• Toward Truth and Reconciliation Worship Service
• Aboriginal Day of Prayer

Additional Resources

• Remembering the Children Prayer [PDF: 1 p/615 KB]
• The Anglican Church of Canada – New Agape
• The Presbyterian Church in Canada
  • We Are One In The Spirit - A Healing & Reconciliation Liturgical Resource
  • Healing & Reconciliation
• Dancing the Dream
• Apologies and Confessions
  • Anglican
  • Presbyterian
  • United

Truth Telling – A Presentation

The United Church took part in “Voicing the Past,” [PDF: 8 pp/55 KB] an event held by the Indian Residential School Survivors Society of B.C. to learn more about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

For more information please contact:

• Jamie Scott
  Tel: 416-231-7680 ext. 2032
  Toll-free: 1-800-268-3781 ext. 2032
  E-mail: Jamie Scott  or
• The Residential Schools Steering Committee
  E-mail: Residential Schools Steering Committee