Duplessis Orphans
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duplessis-orphans-175-6493049
title:
Duplessis Orphans
text:
The Duplessis Orphans were a population of Canadian children wrongly certified as mentally ill by the provincial government of Quebec and confined to psychiatric institutions in the 1940s and 1950s. Many of these children were deliberately miscertified in order to acquire additional subsidies from the federal government. They are named for Maurice Duplessis, who served as Premier of Quebec for five non-consecutive terms between 1936 and 1959. The controversies associated with Duplessis, and part
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description:
Canadian children, wrongly classified as mentally ill
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplessis_Orphans
date created:
2005-01-21T21:22:28Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T04:00:35Z
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