Library and Archives Canada's move to finally release a 98-year-old document on Ottawa's treatment of sick First Nations children sheds a small sliver of light onto a part of Canada's history still shrouded by the darkness of locked archives, researchers say. The document, in the form of two letters, is from the era when Duncan Campbell Scott was deputy superintendent of Indian Affairs. Scott was the architect behind amendments to the Indian Act that made it mandatory for First Nations children to attend residential schools. Scott once stated that Indian Affairs' goal was to find a "final solution of our Indian problem." The Justice Department's deputy minister responded saying that a new amendment to the Indian Act was needed to create the regulations.

Source: CBC News February 17, 2018 09:00 UTC