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    • Let's go Play in the Bomb Buildings
    • The Girls of Priory Hall
    • Tamarind Sky
    • And Neither Have I wings to Fly
    • My Sad is All Gone
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    • Huronia Lawsuit
    • Institutional Abuse
    • PART ONE: The Rise of the Orillia Asylum
    • Before 1876: Jails, Work-houses, Asylums
    • The Asylum for Idiots and Feeble-Minded, Orillia, 1876
    • PART TWO: Canadian Eugenics
    • Canadian Eugenicists
    • PART THREE: The Role of the Parents
    • PART FOUR: The Institution: Ontario Hospital School Orillia, 1936-1974
    • The Institution: Physical Appearance
    • Role of Government Inspectors
    • Life in the Institution
    • Punishment and Cruel Treatment
    • Sexual Abuse at Huronia
    • Patient Labour at Huronia
    • A Visit To Huronia Regional Centre, 1995
    • Survivors' Stories
  • Huronia Survivors/
    • Barry T.'s Story
    • Ms. X's Story
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October 01, 2013

Author Reading and Talk: The Orillia Institution for the “mentally retarded”

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Tuesday October 8, 2013
Annette St. Public Library. 7pm.
Display of author’s Archival Photographs in foyer for a week.

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And Neither Have I Wings, Orillia, Talks, 2013

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    • PART ONE: The Rise of the Orillia Asylum
    • Before 1876: Jails, Work-houses, Asylums
    • The Asylum for Idiots and Feeble-Minded, Orillia, 1876
    • PART TWO: Canadian Eugenics
    • Canadian Eugenicists
    • PART THREE: The Role of the Parents
    • PART FOUR: The Institution: Ontario Hospital School Orillia, 1936-1974
    • The Institution: Physical Appearance
    • Role of Government Inspectors
    • Life in the Institution
    • Punishment and Cruel Treatment
    • Sexual Abuse at Huronia
    • Patient Labour at Huronia
    • A Visit To Huronia Regional Centre, 1995
    • Survivors' Stories
  • Huronia Survivors/
    • Barry T.'s Story
    • Ms. X's Story
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Thelma Wheatley

Thelma Wheatley is an author, advocate, and speaker. Her most recent book, And Neither Have I Wings to Fly; Labelled and Locked up in Canada's Oldest Institution is about life at the Huronia Regional Centre in Orillia, Ontario, and the abuse of its residents. She gives insight into the recent class action lawsuit against the government of Ontario and Huronia and the settlement.

 
 

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