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