Office of the Independent Special Interlocutor

A the same time, Duncan Campbell Scott, Acting Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs was attempting to slow the loss of students, informing The Assistant Indian Commissioner, Regina that …in the case of the boy the Department will not discharge him but will expect the new regulations to be put into force … and the child brought back… With regard to No. 063 I beg to say that if the Department remembers rightly Prince himself persisted in having this child left at St. Boniface School, – if this is so she will also be brought back under the Regulations … DC Scott [see Canadian Encyclopedia entry of Scott here https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/duncan-campbell-scott ]

Item 46a-c013711-d0131-001 – [Discharge of Certain Pupils From the St. Boniface Industrial School] https://archives.nctr.ca/46a-c013711-d0131-001

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