How did Canadian missionaries imagine settler-indigenous relations from the 1950s to 1970s?

This thesis investigates Canadian missionary records to research the imagined self/other relations through the missionary perspective. Missionary schools, the Catholic Church and repercussions of missionary actions on contemporary Canadian society establish three distinct levels of focus for the analysis. The research conducted is qualitative and uses the "Typology of Relations to the Other" by T.Todorov as well as scholars of Postcolonial theory as analytical frameworks. The findings of the thesis illuminate how missionaries established themselves as neutral force in between settler society/church and the indigenous population. Furthermore, the findings indicate how imagined settler-indigenous relations helped to sustain the imperial system during the 1950s to 1970s.