Recovering the Record.

Reconciliation begins with recovery — of truth, of evidence, of memory.

In Canada, the historical record is incomplete by design. Many stories were excluded, erased, or reduced to footnotes within colonial systems of documentation. To recover the record is to acknowledge those absences — and to work with care and integrity to bring suppressed histories into view.

At Birchwood Historical Research, we see this work not simply as archival recovery, but as ethical repair. Each document, photograph, and testimony is approached as a site of relationship — where context, responsibility, and respect must guide interpretation.

Recovering the record is where reconciliation begins — through rewriting history with truth, integrity, and the voices that were once silenced.

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