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Appendix 3: Persons Found Guilty of Abusing Residential School Students

The following list of individuals convicted of abusing residential school students was compiled by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada through a review of documents provided by parties to the Settlement Agreement, government archives, and court records, and searches of online legal and non-legal databases. There are a number of limitations to this list. Because document production has been an ongoing process throughout the operation of the Commission, it has not been possible to review all documents provided to the Commission. The Commission has not had the time or resources to review the various court and police records for information on prosecutions and convictions relating to the abuse of students.

School Offender Conviction Sentence
Alberta
Edmonton James Ludford gross indecency (1960) 1 year’s suspended sentence; report to provincial mental hospital and not participate in activities with individuals under age 211
Morley Robert G. Pooley indecent assault (1963) 1 year’s suspended sentence, to be served at a provincial mental institute2
British Columbia
Alert Bay Harry Joseph indecent assault (1970) suspended sentence3
Kamloops and Mission Gerald Moran 12 counts sexual abuse (2004) 3 years’ incarceration4
Kuper Island and Williams Lake Glenn Doughty 4 counts gross indecency, Williams Lake (1991) 1 year’s incarceration5
6 counts, including indecent assault and gross indecency, Kuper Island (1995) 4 additional months’ incarceration6
36 counts (sex related), Williams Lake and Kuper Island (2000) 3 additional years’ incarceration7
Lower Post, BC, and Grollier Hall, NWT George Maczynski sexual assault (molesting boys), Lower Post (1973) 2 years’ incarceration (served 10 months)8
11 counts indecent assault, 6 counts buggery, 1 count attempted buggery, 9 counts gross indecency, and 1 count attempted gross indecency, Lower Post (1995) 16 years’ incarceration9
5 counts, including indecent assault, gross indecency, and buggery, Grollier Hall (1997) 4 years’ incarceration, to be served consecutively after completion of 16-year sentence (for the 1995 conviction)10
Lytton Derek Clarke 8 counts buggery and 6 counts indecent assault (1988)11 12 years’ incarceration12
4 additional counts (1996) 2 additional years’ incarceration13
Port Alberni Bruce Donald Haddock 4 counts indecent assault (2004) 23 months’ incarceration14
Arthur Plint 18 counts indecent assault (1995) 11 years’ incarceration15
17 counts (1997) 11 years’ incarceration, concurrent with above-noted sentence16
Williams Lake Harold McIntee 17 counts sexual assault (13 related to Williams Lake) (1989) 2 years’ incarceration on each count concurrently, with 3 years’ probation to follow; ordered to meet families of his victims and hear their stories face-to-face17
Manitoba
Dauphin McKay Ernest Constant 1 count indecent assault (2005) 2 years less a day, conditional sentence18
Fleming Hall William Hamilton sexual assault (1964) 3 years’ incarceration19
Donald Perdue contributing to the delinquency of juveniles (1964)20 unknown
Grollier Hall Joseph Louis Comeau 2 counts indecent assault (1998) 1 year’s incarceration on each count, to be served concurrently21
Martin Houston buggery, gross sexual indecency (1962) indefinite sentence; declared a dangerous sex offender (spent 10 years in jail)22
1 count sodomy and 2 counts indecent assault (2004) 3 years’ probation23
Grollier Hall, NWT, and Beauval, SK Paul Leroux 1 count sexual assault (1979) 4 months’ incarceration24 (later received a pardon and conviction was removed from criminal record)
1 count attempted buggery, 1 count attempted indecent assault, 3 counts indecent assault, 4 counts gross indecency, Grollier Hall (1998) 10 years’ incarceration (paroled after serving less than 4 years of his sentence)25
10 counts indecent assault, Beauval, SK (2013) 3 years’ incarceration26
Ontario
Fort Albany Jane Belanger assault (1998)27 unknown
Marcel Blais 1 count indecent assault (1997) unknown28
Claude Lambert 1 count indecent assault (1997) 8 months’ incarceration29
John Rodrique 5 counts indecent assault (1997) 18 months’ incarceration30
Anna Wesley 3 counts administering a noxious substance and 2 counts simple assault (1999) conditional sentence31
Sioux Lookout Leonard Hands 19 counts indecent assault (1996) 4 years’ incarceration32
Saskatchewan
Gordon’s [No first name given] Courtney unknown incarcerated33
Henry Cyr touching a person under the age of 14 for sexual purposes and setting traps to cause bodily harm (1989) $300 fine on both counts34
Ewald Holfeld35 common assault (1945) $20 fine plus costs36
2 counts buggery and 1 count attempted buggery (1945) 2 years’ incarceration on each count, to be served concurrently37
William McNab 1 count sodomy (1947) 6 months’ incarceration38
Kenneth McNabb unknown (c. 1955) fined39
William Penniston Starr 10 counts sexual assault (1993) 4.5 years’ incarceration40
Kamsack R. Jubinville 3 counts assault causing bodily harm (1994) fined $300 on each count41
Prince Albert George Zimmerman 9 counts indecent assault, 1 count attempted sexual intercourse, and 1 count sexual intercourse (1995) 5 years’ incarceration42
Yukon
Coudert Hall Claude Frappier 13 counts indecent assault (1990) 5 years’ incarceration43

  1. TRC, NRA, No document location, no document file source, Alberta Justice, Clerk of the Provincial Court of Alberta, Conviction, 28 September 1960. [EDM-003354] ↩︎

  2. TRC, ASAGR, R. G. Pooley to R. F. Davey, 23 November 1963; [AANDC-261608] TRC, ASAGR, M. Brodhead to Regional School Superintendent – Alberta, 3 January 1964; [AANDC-261599] “Jail Teacher for One Year,” Winnipeg Free Press, 26 September 1963. ↩︎

  3. TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, 978/2, volume 1209, 05/1965–06/1971, NAC, V. A. Stephens to H. B. Robinson, 29 May 1970. [ABR-094456] ↩︎

  4. Eva Salinas, “Four-year Hunt Ends in Arrest,” Globe and Mail, 3 August 2006. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/four-year-hunt-ends-in-arrest/article713735/. ↩︎

  5. Shea, Institutional Child Abuse in Canada, 2. ↩︎

  6. Shea, Institutional Child Abuse in Canada, 2. ↩︎

  7. LeBeuf, Role of the RCMP, 462. ↩︎

  8. R. vs. Maczynski, 1997 CanLII 2491 (BCCA) (appeal of sentence); TRC, NRA, No document location, no document file source, E. Morriset to R. B. Kohls, 28 October 1974. [OBG-002922] ↩︎

  9. “Former Students File Suit Over Sexual, Physical Abuse,” Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, 26 November 1996; Caroline Murray, “Abuse Victims Recall Atrocities,” Whitehorse Daily Star. 25 November 1996; Shea, Institutional Child Abuse in Canada, 2. ↩︎

  10. Richard Gleeson, “Four Years for Sex Assault,” Northern News Services, 8 August 1997, http:// www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/1997-08/aug8_97jail.html; Shea, Institutional Child Abuse in Canada, 9. ↩︎

  11. It should be noted that of the eight counts of buggery, five related to offences committed at Lytton and the other three to offences committed at another institution that was not a residential school, the Central City Mission. ↩︎

  12. LeBeuf, Role of the RCMP, 462; “School Sex Assaults Bring Jail,” Vancouver Sun, 4 October 1996; Shea, Institutional Child Abuse in Canada, 2. ↩︎

  13. LeBeuf, Role of the RCMP, 462; “School Sex Assaults Bring Jail,” Vancouver Sun, 4 October 1996. ↩︎

  14. Canadian Press, “Former Employee of Residential School Jailed for Sex Abuses,” Victoria Times-Colonist, January 24, 2004; United Church of Canada Archives, Residential School Archive Project, “The Children Remembered, Alberni Residential School,” http://thechildrenremembered.ca/schools-history/alberni/ (accessed 6 November 2013). ↩︎

  15. R. v. Plint, [1995] B.C.J. No. 3060 (BCSC); Canadian Press, “Former Employee of Residential School Jailed for Sex Abuses,” Victoria Times-Colonist, January 24, 2004. ↩︎

  16. R. v. Plint, [1995] B.C.J. No. 3060 (BCSC); Canadian Press, “Former Employee of Residential School Jailed for Sex Abuses,” Victoria Times-Colonist, January 24, 2004. ↩︎

  17. TRC, NRA, Her Majesty the Queen and Harold Daniel McIntee, Reasons for Judgment, Judge C. C. Marnett, Provincial Court of British Columbia, 1 June 1989; [BKM-000204] Ann Rees, “Priest’s Victims Admit Sexual Abuse,” The Province (Vancouver), 19 July 1989; Shea, Institutional Child Abuse in Canada, 2–3. ↩︎

  18. R. v. Constant (28 September 2005), Court of Queen’s Bench (Dauphin Centre), Indictment (5 May 2003), and Disposition (26 September 2005), #03-05-00069, documents obtained from Court of Queen’s Bench (Dauphin Centre), Dauphin, Manitoba, 28 January 2014. ↩︎

  19. TRC, NRA, file 630-118/10-1,2,3, part 1A, Fort McPherson Reports, General and Supplies, 1963–1967, Archival box 239-1, Archival Acc. G-1979-003, O. G. Tucker to H. Darkes, 26 March 1963. [FHU-001914] ↩︎

  20. TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada – Ottawa, RG22, Perm. volume 1074, file 250-26-17, part 2, Fort McPherson – School, 1959, FA 22-3, David Searle to D. M. Christie, 23 April 1964. [FHU001380-0001] ↩︎

  21. R. v. Comeau, [1998] N.W.T.J. No. 34 (NTSC); Shea, Institutional Child Abuse in Canada, 9. ↩︎

  22. Ed Struzik, “Priest’s Sordid Past Shocks Parish: Father Houston Was Declared Dangerous Sex Offender, Sent to Prison in 1962,” Edmonton Journal, 6 June 2002. ↩︎

  23. Andrew Raven, “Grollier Hall Supervisor Sentenced,” Northern News Services, 20 August 2004, http://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/2004-08/aug20_04crt.html. ↩︎

  24. Justice J. Vertes, “In the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories, Between Her Majesty the Queen and Paul Leroux,” 10 August 1998; Glenn Taylor, “Arrest in Grollier Hall Sex Case: Former Boys Supervisor Faces 32 Counts of Sexual Assault on His Student,” Northern News Services, 16 June 1997, http://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/1997-06/jun16_97sex.html. ↩︎

  25. Dawn Ostrem, “Back to Court: Paul Leroux Challenges Convictions, Sentence,” Northern News Services, 26 June 1997, http://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/2000-06/jun26_00back. html. ↩︎

  26. “Ex-residential School Worker Convicted of Abusing Boys,” CBC News, 5 November 2013, http:// www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/ex-residential-school-worker-convicted-of-abusing-boys-1.2415810; “Paul Leroux Gets 3 Years for Residential School Abuse, CBC News, 12 December 2013, http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/paul-lerouxgets-3-years-for-residential-school-abuse-1.2461629. ↩︎

  27. “Nun Guilty in Residential School Assaults,” CBC News, 28 December 1998, http://www.cbc.ca/ news/canada/nun-guilty-in-residential-school-assaults-1.166827. ↩︎

  28. Shea, Institutional Child Abuse in Canada, 10. Shea observes only that the sentence did not include jail time. ↩︎

  29. Shea, Institutional Child Abuse in Canada, 12. ↩︎

  30. Shea, Institutional Child Abuse in Canada, 14–15. ↩︎

  31. “Nun Forced Native Students to Eat Their Own Vomit,” Edmonton Journal, 25 June 1999. ↩︎

  32. R. v. Hands, [1996] O.J. No. 264; LeBeuf, Role of the RCMP, 456; Shea, Institutional Child Abuse in Canada, 11. ↩︎

  33. TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume 8754, file 654/25-1, volume 1, Henry G. Cook to R. F. Davey, 2 December 1955. [IRC-047015] ↩︎

  34. LeBeuf, Role of the RCMP, 457. ↩︎

  35. Ewald Holfeld’s last name appears in some records as Schofield and in others as Holdfeld. ↩︎

  36. TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume 6309, file 645-1, part 3, R. S. Davis, extract from Quarterly Report Ending March, 1945, on Touchwood Agency. [IRC-047128] ↩︎

  37. TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume 6309, file 645-1, part 3, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Constable A. Zimmerman, 28 July 1945. [GDC-010369-0001] ↩︎

  38. TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume 6309, file 645-1, part 3, R. S. Davis to Indian Affairs, 13 February 1947. [GDC-010362-0001] ↩︎

  39. TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume 8754, file 654-1/25-1, volume 1, Henry G. Cook to R. F. Davey, 2 December 1955. [IRC-047015] ↩︎

  40. Mandryk, “Uneasy Neighbours,” 210. ↩︎

  41. LeBeuf, Role of the RCMP, 458. ↩︎

  42. “Man sentenced to five years for sexually assaulting Native girls,” Windspeaker Staff, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Windspeaker, Canada’s National Aboriginal News Source, Volume 12 ↩︎

  43. R. v. Frappier, [1990] Y.J. No.163 (Terr. Ct.) (QuickLaw); Shea, Institutional Child Abuse in Canada; Criminal Cases, 17. ↩︎