By Bree Duwyn Writer BRANTFORD-Brantford city council wants both the federal and provincial governments and Anglican Church to release all records connected with the former Mohawk Institute Residential School on Six Nations lands adjacent to the city. City Council voted unanimously at a special city council meeting Tuesday (May 17), in favour of a Notice of Motion calling for the release of all records documenting the former Mohawk Institute Indian Residential School’s operation from 1831 to 1970. Brantford Mayor Kevin Davis acknowledged the city’s close proximity to the largest population of Indigenous peoples in Canada, before expressing Brantford’s shared grief for survivors and their families. “We are grateful to the City of Brantford for their support and advocacy of our mandate to create a community archive by collecting all related…
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