The Walrus | J Boulard
Eugene Arcand is one of more than 6,500 survivors and witnesses of the residential school system who spoke to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission when three commissioners, led by Murray Sinclair, spent six years gathering testimonies and millions of federal records. On December 15, 2015, the TRC presented its Final Report on the impacts of residential schools, just eighteen years after the last institution closed its doors.