2012 Author Readings and Presentations

United Nations International Day of the Girl, OISE, University of Toronto.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Talk on the Orillia Institution: “LABELLED AND LOCKED UP IN CANADA’S OLDEST INSTITUTION”. And Exhibit of my archival photographs of the institution for the mentally retarded, Orillia, Ontario, 1900-1966, and a slide show, and talk  on the institutionalization of the mentally retarded  in Ontario Hospital School, Orillia, at the United Nations International Day of the Girl, sponsored by University of Toronto, at OISE.

 

Poets For Change
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Steelworkers Hall, 28 Cecil Street, Toronto
Poetry reading

 

59th Annual Conference, Community Living Ontario,
in Richmond Hill, Ontario
May 31, 2012

Presentation, “Labelled and Locked Up in Canada’s Oldest Institution”
It was accompanied by a display of archival photographs of Ontario Hospital School, the institution for the mentally retarded in Orillia in the twentieth century, Ontario, the subject of my book.