Support Services
Personal support
Conducting research on these topics may be difficult and upsetting. The following counselling resources are available:
- Indigenous Traditional Counselling Services are available through Aboriginal Student Services.
- TMU students can learn more about services available to them at the Centre for Student Development and Counselling.
- TMU Employees seeking counselling should access the employee assistance program for resources.
- Emotional, cultural and professional support services are also available to survivors and their families through the federal Indian Residential Schools Resolution Health Support Program.
- A National Indian Residential School Crisis Line has been set up to provide support for former residential school students. You can access emotional and crisis referral services by calling the 24-Hour National Crisis Line: 1-866-925-4419
Research support
Contact Archives and Special Collections to arrange a lecture or workshop for your class on primary source research processes and how to read archival descriptions. Classes can be designed around your assignment.
This Intro to Archival research presentation provides an overview of how to do primary source research, how to read archival descriptions, and where to get expert advice on campus. This primary source research activity includes links to online primary source materials to interact with: Listen to a woman talk about her experience as a Shingwauk Residential School Survivor and look at images from St. John's Indian Residential School. Included are a series of prompts to think about the legacy of residential schools.
The Library & Archives Canada guide Conducting Research on Residential Schools will help researchers navigate the records of the Indian and Inuit Affairs Program, where the bulk of the records related to Residential Schools are located, in Record Group (RG) 10.
Photo credits
St. Josephs Mission girls sewing by Anonymous, via Wikimedia Commons (CCO 1.0)
Eskimo children sewing, via Wikimedia Commons
Native School Children at Holy Cross Mission, Yukon, via Wikimedia Commons
