Most of the sources I used during my research were books. In order to have a better understanding of the residential school experience and to be able to write about it, I had to gather sources that included Survivors talking about their time their or somehow reflecting on what they experienced. What I found was that most of these testimonies were published in books and not in journal articles. The journal articles I found were mostly studies focused on how residential schools affected later generations. Unfortunately, the books I found were generally not about specific schools, provinces, or time periods, which made it difficult to do research about a certain province or decade. I can say with some certainty that most of the testimonies I read were from people who attended a residential school in the 1930s or later. Also, because the classroom experience was often a small chapter of each book, I ended up using quite a few sources to gather enough information to write my research paper. Overall, it was not difficult to find sources, but it was difficult to ignore some that I knew would be interesting but irrelevant to what I wanted to write about.