Untangling Mark Carney’s father’s ties to Fort Smith, N.W.T., Indian day school
Untangling Mark Carney’s father’s ties to Fort Smith, N.W.T., Indian day school
A man with glasses is seen in a faded, black and white yearbook principal's message.

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.