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Your Records
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- Preserve
- Access
- Reports
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- 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
- View Exhibits
- 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
- 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
- Reconciliation Network Coordination Hub
- 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.
News & Events
- News
  - NCTR News
  - Newsletter
- NCTR Events
  - All Events
- Community Events
  - National Advisory Committee on Residential School Missing Children and Unmarked Burials
- News and Events
  - Stay up to date with NCTR news and events.
About
- About
  - Overview
- 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.
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.

View Your Records

The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) was created to preserve the memory and legacy of Canada’s residential school system.

The most important service we provide is delivering Survivors and their families a record of their own history, a sacred bundle that the NCTR will protect and preserve forever for the benefit of all Canadians. These archives are the spiritual core of the NCTR.

Archives

Access the spiritual core of the NCTR: the AtoM archive database is a rich, dynamic and vast collection of documents, oral histories, photos and other important records gathered by the TRC and beyond.

Interactive Map

Use our interactive map to browse the archives.

Request a Record

Survivors and Intergenerational Survivors: To request your records, or the records of a family member, you can contact the NCTR directly.

Survivor Support

Accessing and viewing records within the NCTR Archives may be a traumatic experience for Survivors and their families. If at any time you feel the need to speak with someone, a national crisis line is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The National Residential School Crisis Line: 1-866-925-4419

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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.