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Untangling Mark Carney's father's ties to Fort Smith, N.W.T., Indian day school

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Mark Carney’s father Robert Carney was a federal Indian day school principal in the Northwest Territories in the 1960s, at a place where residential school boarders also attended. Yet three historians are urging caution when approaching that complicated legacy. Here's why.

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Questions swirl over Mark Carney's father's role in NWT Indian school

Liberal Leader Mark Carney fielded no questions Friday over his father's role as principal of an Indian day school in Canada's north.

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Untangling Mark Carney's father's ties to Fort Smith, N.W.T., Indian day school

Mark Carney’s father Robert Carney was a federal Indian day school principal in the Northwest Territories in the 1960s, at a place where residential school boarders also attended. Yet three historians are urging caution when approaching that complicated legacy. Here's why.

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Former day school students say Robert Carney was their principal

Former students have their say about Robert Carney and the day school he ran in the N.W.T. Robert is the father of Prime Minister Mark Carney.

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Untangling Mark Carney's father's ties to Fort Smith, N.W.T., Indian day school #NorthCanada #NorthernCanada #Canada #CanadaNorth #CDNNews

Warning: this story contains outdated language and discusses physical and sexual abuse at residential schools. It was March 1965, and Catholic educator Robert J. Carney had gone on CBC Radio to discuss his work as a federal day school principal in the Northwest Territories. Today, it’s an interview some may find jarring. “Mr. Carney, at the teachers conference not long ago, you told about a program you have working at the Joseph B. Tyrrell (JBT)…

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