In 2015 the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) concluded its seven years of work digging into the legacy of the Indian Residential Schools that operated in this country for more than a century. To promote reconciliation between First Nations communities and other Canadians the TRC issued a number of calls to action, one was a request for congregations to educate their members on the church’s historic connection to these schools. This proposed study project responds to that call by working to acknowledge and understand the beliefs and convictions that motivated those who led three of these schools. It will focus on the missionaries who ran the three “Mennonite Indian Residential Schools” in Ontario. I will interview some of these missionaries and study the early publications of the sponsoring agencies. My findings will serve as the basis for several articles, a public talk and initial research for a book. In the book I will wrestle with the fact that the faith community I serve in was involved in this assimilationist project. For me the question is personal: I lived at two of these residential schools as a staff-kid.