CMHA Cdn mental health  This has contact info for Orillia.

 

To: Madison and others — Some extremely disturbing things happened to people at the Huronia Regional Health Centre. I strongly recommend you talk with your parents before you read any information that you find on websites other than this one. I have NOT included the most disturbing links.

Huronia Regional Health Centre  a collection of links from the Ontario Government

This was in in Orillia. It closed in 2009. It was a place for people who were deemed to be inferior lived and were supposed to be looked after. Many were NOT.

History of HRC  https://www.mcss.gov.on.ca/en/mcss/programs/developmental/HRC_history.aspx

Words to describe people with mental health issues over time    https://www.mcss.gov.on.ca/en/dshistory/language/index.aspx

Attitudes of people late 1800s to 1960s … you may be shocked   https://www.mcss.gov.on.ca/en/dshistory/reasons/eugenics.aspx

2013 Apology by Ontario Premier K. Wynne to residents of HRC  https://www.mcss.gov.on.ca/en/dshistory/reasons/eugenics.aspx

Toronto Star article after Ont. Gov’t apologized in 2013 and settled with some residents of HRC