"And neither have I wings to fly" : labelled and locked up in Canada's oldest institution / Thelma Wheatley.
- Wheatley, Thelma
- Date:
- [2013]
- Books
About this work
Description
Tells the story of "Daisy Lumsden" and thousands like her, declared unfit for society due to intellectual and physical disabilities, then forcibly confined and abused in the Ontario Hospital School, Orillia.
Publication/Creation
Toronto, Ontario : Inanna Publications and Education Inc., [2013]
Physical description
viii, 411 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Contributors
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references.
Languages
Subjects
- 20th century
- EugenicsCanadaHistory20th century
- Involuntary sterilizationOntarioOrilliaHistory
- People with mental disabilitiesAbuse ofOntarioOrilliaHistory
- People with mental disabilitiesInstitutional careOntarioOrilliaHistory
- People with mental disabilitiesOntarioOrilliaBiography
- Persons with Mental Disabilitieshistory
- Eugenicshistory
- History, 20th Century
- Intellectual Disabilityhistory
- Sterilization, Involuntaryhistory
- Ontario
- Huronia Regional Centre (Psychiatric hospital)
- Ontario Hospital School (Orillia, Ont.)
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicinePP.RX.54Open shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 192670858X
- 9781926708584