NCTR announces 400 names added to missing registrar at NDTR ceremony in Ottawa

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The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, or NCTR, says it is adding hundreds of additional names to the registrar of children missing from residential schools.

“There are more than 4,000 students on the registry and through the NCTR research team we have been able to find 400 additional names this year,” executive director Stephanie Scott told a gathering on Parliament Hill for the annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

The NCTR was established by the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement and is mandated to collect information regarding residential schools.

Scott said the centre is continuously working with communities to uncover more names. She said after the ceremony that it’s a constant struggle to find money for the research.

“It’s really important to find all the young children, who did not return home,” she said. “We’ve got another two years to continue the work and then every other year we’re actually at the table again speaking with the government lobbying for funding trying to get the resources in order to do the work.

“It’s hard, it’s emotional and we will continue updating the register every year until we no longer do it.”

More than 150,000 children were forced to attend residential schools, and many survivors detailed the horrific abuse they suffered at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

An estimated 6,000 children died while attending the schools, although experts say the actual number could be much higher.

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