Additional residential school records held in Rome are now being made available for access by the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.
Yesterday, the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate announced they would be making the previously locked archives available.
Those archives could include correspondence sent to Rome and Paris, and other material to help undertake research at former sites.
The Oblates ran 48 residential schools across Canada, and have previously released more than 40,000 records to the Centre.
In additional, the Oblates are working to digitally catalogue hand written records stored in their archive known as the Codex Historicus.
Indigenous delegations from Canada are set to depart for meetings with the Pope at the Vatican beginning next Monday.
Many of the delegates attending the meetings have said they will use the opportunity to demand more access to records, as well as an apology from Pope Francis.
