Statements from the Canadian Library and GLAM Community Related to Missing Children and Indian Residential Schools

Statements from the Canadian Library and GLAM Community Related to Kamloops Indian Residential School

June 20, 2021

A listing of statements and commitments made by the Canadian library, archives, and museum community following the confirmation of the remains of 215 children who were students of the Kamloops Indian Residential School.

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Archives Association of Ontario (AAO)

• AAO Statement on the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation’s discovery of an unmarked burial site at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School (June 14, 2021)

Canadian Federation of Library Associations (CFLA)

• CFLA-FCAB Statement on Kamloops IRS (PDF) (June 18, 2021)

Canadian Museums Association (CMA)

• Statement from the Canadian Museums Association Following the Discovery of the Remains of 215 Indigenous Children at Site of BC Residential School (May 31, 2021)

Canadian Urban Libraries Council (CULC)

• Open Statement – Truth and Reconciliation – Access to Data and Information (June 11, 2021)

Ontario Library Association (OLA)

• Statement on the Kamloops residential school burial site (June 3, 2021)

Ontario Museum Association (OMA)

• Listen, Learn, Act (June 3, 2021)

University of British Columbia, School of Information

• Statement on the Missing Children of the Kamloops Indian Residential School (June 1, 2021)

University of Toronto, Faculty of Information

• Statement from the Truth and Reconciliation Working Group of the Faculty of Information (June 9, 2021)