The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) was created through a legal settlement between Residential Schools Survivors, the Assembly of First Nations, Inuit representatives and the parties responsible for creation and operation of the schools: the federal government and the church bodies.

The TRC’s mandate was to inform all Canadians about what happened in residential schools. The TRC documented the truth of Survivors, their families, communities and anyone personally affected by the residential school experience. This included First Nations, Inuit and Métis former residential school students, their families, communities, the churches, former school employees, government officials and other Canadians.

The TRC concluded its mandate in 2015 and transferred its records to the safekeeping of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR).

When the members of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (The Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair, Dr. Marie Wilson, and Chief Wilton Littlechild) finished their work, they published their findings in a number of documents:

• Summary of the Final Report
• What we have learned
• The Survivors Speak
• Canada’s Residential Schools: The History, Part 1
• Canada’s Residential Schools: The History, Part 2
• Canada’s Residential Schools: The Inuit and Northern Experience
• Canada’s Residential Schools: The Métis Experience
• Canada’s Residential Schools: Missing Children and Unmarked Burials
• Canada’s Residential Schools: The Legacy
• Canada’s Residential Schools: Reconciliation