Researcher suspects there are up to 1,000 photos that could be important to understanding what happened in Canada’s residential schools
Raymond Frogner says when he found images of residential school students in the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate archives in Rome, he knew he was looking at something important.
Frogner pored through the archives in the former residence of an Italian nobleman. He worked in front of a statue of the Virgin Mary and a large fresco nearby depicted Jesus and the founder of the Oblates, Eugène de Mazenod.“The big find for me was in the photographs.” “Not to my surprise, the archivist at the archives there had no idea the significance of what they were holding,” he said.
The order’s long-standing practice is to keep personnel records sealed for 50 years after a member’s death. The order has said it is taking steps to accelerate access to the files.The Oblates have already provided the national centre with more than 40,000 records and 10,000 more have been digitized.
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