Disability & the Poorhouse
Orillia Hospital School. First called the Asylum for Idiots and Feeble minded (1876). Over 10,000 children and adults were committed there until it closed in 2009. Some people from Waterloo County House of Industry and Refuge were sent here. Source: Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada/
“In each society there are favored ways in which two individuals can approach and have dealings with each other: as kindred to kindred, or high caste to low” Erving Goffman
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Links about Disability and Institutionalization
Thelma Wheatley’s Book and Research
Feeble Minded in Ontario Report (7th report) by Helen MacMurchy (1912)