(xxviii) Committee on Native Canadians
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- Date
- 1967 August 15-18
- Source
- House of Bishops Minutes
- Type
- Resolution
- Mover
- Bishop of Quebec
- Seconder
- Bishop of Moosonee
- Prologue
- The Bishop of Quebec, as Chairman of the Committee on Native Canadians, presented a report. The report will be found as Appendix C to these Minutes
- The most pressing need in the Dioceses in the Civil Provinces of Ontario and Quebec where work is done among native people, is for Anglican teachers for day and residential schools. The proper channel by which the needs of the Dioceses and the personnel available in other Dioceses are brought together is the Personnel Division of M.S.C.C. This channel has apparently not been in effective use.
- The suggestion was made that recruits for this work are still obtainable in England.
- Text of motion
- "That the report of the House of Bishops' Committee on Native Canadians be received."
- Notes
- APPENDIX C
- HOUSE OF BISHOPS COMMITTEE ON NATIVE CANADIANS REPORT FOR THE PERIOD AUGUST 1966 to MAY 1967
- Your Committee on Native Canadians, under the Chairmanship of the Bishop of Quebec, respectfully submits the following report:
- Meetings -- Three meetings of the Committee have been held, at the time of the Quarterly Meetings in November 1966 and in February and May 1967.
- ACTION TAKEN BY THE COMMITTEE
- 1. Following a presentation by the Bishops of Keewatin to the Committee on the plight of Indians who move to urban communities and who lack the means of obtaining a down payment and a mortgage loan on a suitable residence, the Chairman wrote to the Minister of Northern Affairs and National Resources to enquire whether Government assistance might be provided to meet this need.
- A reply was received from Mr. R.F. Battle, Assistant Deputy Minister, Indian Affairs, as follows:
- Ottawa 4, June 19, 1967.
- The Right Reverend R.F. Brown,
- Bishop of Quebec,
- Bishopthorpe,
- 69 d'Auteuil,
- Quebec 4, P.Q.
- Dear Bishop Brown:
- In answer to your enquiry of January 6, 1967, I advised you on January 19, that the administrative details of a program of 'Conditional Grants' for the establishment of Indian families off reserves, to provide housing assistance comparable to that granted Indians on reserves, would be announced soon.
- The Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, the Honourable Arthur Laing, announced the details of the Off Reserve Housing Program in the House of Commons on May 16, 1967.
- I promised to write to you again when the details had been worked out and I am attaching for your information a copy of the Minister's release after announcing the program now in effect.
- Yours sincerely,
- (Signed)
- R.F. Battle,
- Assistant Deputy Minister,
- (Indian Affairs).
- 2. MISSIONARY BISHOP'S [sic] CONFERENCE
- The Committee received the report and resolutions from the M.S.C.C. Missionary Bishop's [sic] Conference at Aurora in November, 1966.
- 3. INTER-CHURCH INSTITUTE IN WINNIPEG -- June 12-22, 1967
- The Committee received a report from the Bishop of Keewatin on the proposed Inter-Church Institute, to be held in Winnipeg, June 12-22, 1967 for those involved in full-time ministry among Indian and Metis peoples. Some financial support and participation had been arranged with the General Synod inter-departmental Committee on Indian and Eskimo Work.
- 4. INDIAN EDUCATION IN NORTHERN QUEBEC
- The Bishop of Moosonee reported his concern for the fact that a French Roman Catholic Curriculum had been introduced in the Federal Day School at Rupert's House in addition to the Provincial English Protestant Curriculum.
- The Secretary of the Committee was subsequently able to arrange a conference at Church House between the Bishop of Moosonee and Messrs. R.F. Davey and Paul Deziel of Indian Affairs Education, Ottawa, with members of M.S.C.C. staff in attendance; to present our concerns about this situation, which had resulted in the Indians of the East Coast of James' Bay sending a protesting Brief to the Prime Minister, Mr. Diefenbaker and Mr. Douglas.
- A statement of protest was also sent to the Hon. Arthur Laing by the Bishop of Moosonee on February 28, and letters of protest were sent by the Bishop of Quebec, Chairman of the House of Bishops' Committee, following the May meeting of the Committee, to the Hon. Arthur Laing, to the Minister of Education for the Province of Quebec and to Cardinal Roy.
- THE FUTURE OF THIS COMMITTEE
- We recommend that this House of Bishops' Committee on Native Canadians be made a Standing Committee of the House of Bishops; to meet at the call of the Chairman, at least once annually.
- Respectfully submitted,
- The Rt. Rev. R.F. Brown, (Chairman),
- The Rev. Canon T.E. Jones, (Secretary).
- Subjects
- Anglican Church of Canada. House of Bishops. Committee on Native Canadians
- Indigenous peoples - Canada - Anglican Church of Canada
- Indigenous peoples - Canada - Residential schools - Anglican Church of Canada
- Indigenous peoples - Canada - Residential schools - Catholic Church
- Indigenous peoples - Quebec (Province) - Residential schools
- Indigenous peoples - Canada - Residential schools - Employees
- Missionary Society of the Anglican Church of Canada (M.S.C.C.). Personnel Division
- Indigenous peoples - Canada - Urban residence
- Indigenous peoples - Canada - Education
- Teachers - Canada
- Indigenous peoples - Canada - Housing