home_town birth_place name known_for article_title birth_name
montreal montreal manuel batshaw founder of batshaw youth and family centres manuel g. batshaw
 manuel gilman batshaw
manuel g. batshaw

manuel gilman batshaw , -lrb- born 17 april 1915 -rrb- is a canadian social worker and is best known for being the founder of batshaw youth and family centres .
he spent more than 50 years in the field of social work in quebec .
in the 1970s , he was active in assisting vietnamese boat people refugees .
in 1975 , he headed an inquiry into abuses at institutions housing troubled young people , and the batshaw committee submitted a report that was the basis for legislation .
in 1993 , five anglophone institutions merged and were named the batshaw youth and family centres in his honour .
he received an honorary degree from mcgill university in 1998 and the national order of quebec in 2003 , as well as the order of canada .
