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About
- About
- About the NCTR
- Who We Are
- History of the TRC
- About
  - The NCTR is a place of learning and dialogue where the truths of the residential school experience will be honoured and kept safe for future generations.
Your Records
- View
- Preserve
- Access
- Your Records
  - The NCTR is your Centre. The stories and records cared for by the NCTR are a crucial part of the shared history of Canada. Understanding these truths is a vital foundation for the future.
Education
- Education
  - Overview
  - Scholarships
- Teaching Resources
- Educational Programs
- Truth and Reconciliation Week
- Education
  - Part of the NCTR mandate is to preserve and make accessible the memory and legacy of the residential school system and the experiences of Survivors and their families for future generations.
Exhibits
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- Exhibits
  - To help foster reconciliation and healing, the NCTR curates both digital and material exhibits documenting the history and legacy of the residential school system for the benefit of all Canadians.
Memorial
- National Student Memorial
- Na-mi-quai-ni-mak
- National Advisory Committee on
  Residential School Missing
  Children and Unmarked Burials
  - NAC-CNN Website
- Memorial
  - The National Student Memorial Register was created to remember and honour the children who never returned home from residential schools, now and into the future.
    The Na-mi-quai-ni-mak (I Remember Them) Fund at the NCTR offers two separate grants to support commemorative and community-based healing initiatives.
Research
- Research
- Research
  - We respectfully promote and advance research in areas related to the legacy of residential schools. Academic and community-based researchers can access material held in the archives as well as contribute to the living legacy of the NCTR.
Publications & Reports
- Publications & Reports
Contact
- Contact
- Contact
  - Our goal is to make your path to information as clear and easy as possible. Whether you are a survivor, member of the media, or a researcher.

Exhibits

Records and materials shared through stories at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) help foster reconciliation and healing and ensure that the history and legacy of the residential school system are never forgotten.

These exhibits contain a wide array of documents and materials that show the construction and operations of the residential schools and the policies that governed them, their legacy and impact on generations of Indigenous Peoples and communities, and some of the steps taken on the path towards healing and reconciliation.

Survivors Flag design

Bentwood Box sitting on animal pelt displayed on plinth

Scan of first page of Chapter 149 from Indian Act document

Group of people on stage at NCTR signing ceremony with the Bentwood Box on display in front of them

Cree Indian language version of Residential School Apology document

Young man drumming at TRC closing ceremony with Elder standing to his left holding a feather and ribbon adorned staff

NCTR’s spirit name – bezhig miigwan, meaning “one feather”.

Bezhig miigwan calls upon us to see each Survivor coming to the NCTR as a single eagle feather and to show those Survivors the same respect and attention an eagle feather deserves. It also teaches we are all in this together — we are all one, connected, and it is vital to work together to achieve reconciliation.