The role of record-keeping is close to the centre of what the royal
commission into abuse is all about: the battle between the Closed and
the Open Society. But — at least in some cases — documents have been
subpoenaed only as far back as 1970.
http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/the-dark-records-of-broken-lives/594/
http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/the-dark-records-of-broken-lives/594/