Documentary record Bound by Fear
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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Other or denomination not established Gordon's Reserve, Saskatchewan, Canada · 1947

Canada (1947): second Gordon's residential-school conviction in the TRC's appendix

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

staff member at the Anglican-run Gordon's Indian Residential School

Organization

Gordon's Indian Residential School (Anglican)

Spiritual nexus

The same church-school custody nexus, at the same institution, two years on — the pattern's persistence is the point.

  • Institutional obedience or isolation
  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 1947-01-01 · conviction

    Canadian court (documented in TRC final-report appendix). William McNab, a staff member at Gordon's Indian Residential School, was convicted of sodomy in 1947 — the school's second in-era conviction in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's appendix, two years after Holfeld's.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • total institutional custody of Indigenous children in a church-run school

Primary record

Sources

official commission finding commission conviction listing Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Final Report, Appendix 3.

The commission's official conviction listing.

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