Nearing the end of the fifteenth century, Catholic missionaries made their way to the New World with the aim of “bring[ing] the people who inhabit [it] to the knowledge of the true God, to civilize them, and to instruct them in the faith and Apostolic, Catholic, and Roman religion” (TRC, 2015, p.27). The Catholics fought to gain more traction in the West than the Protestants; two main groups contributed to this—the Jesuits and the Oblates. At first, the Jesuits had little to do directly with the creation of residential schools in Canada, but their operations were of great influence on other…