It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local indian agent, or the parish priest, or perhaps, a Mounted Police office. The officials have arrived and the children must go. So began the school expierience of many indigenous children in Canada for more than a hundred years, and so begins the history of residntial schools prepared by the Truth and Reconciliation Commsission of Canada (TRC). Between 2008 and 2015, the TRC provided opportunities for individuals, families, and communities to share their experiences of residential schools and released several reports based on 7,000 Survivor statements and 5 million documents from government, churches, and schools, as well as a solid grounding in secondary sources.