"And neither have I wings to fly"
Subtitle: labelled and locked up in Canada's oldest institution
By: Thelma Wheatley
Publisher: Inanna Publications
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Toronto, ON
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9781926708584
Subjects: Intellectual Disability; Biographies; Mentally Disabled Persons; Institutional care; Involuntary Sterilization; Abuse of; Huronia Regional Centre; Stérilisation eugénique; Eugénisme; Handicapés mentaux; History, 20th Century; Ontario Hospital School (Orillia, Ont.); Huronia Regional Centre (Psychiatric hospital); Soins en institutions; Histoire; Violence envers les handicapés mentaux; Eugenics; Involuntary sterilization; People with mental disabilities; History; Biography
Description: Tells the story of "Daisy Lumsden" and thousands like her, declared unfit for society due to intellectual and physical disabilities, then forcibly confined and abused in the Ontario Hospital School, Orillia.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-413).

Issued also in electronic format.
Table of contents: title: Part one : Daisy's story, Ontario Hospital School, Orillia, 1951-1966; title: Part two : The Menace of the Feeble-Minded, Toronto, 1900-1932; title: Part three : Hospital for the Feeble-Minded, Orillia, 1932-1959