Velma Demerson
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Velma Demerson
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Velma Demerson was a Canadian woman who was imprisoned in 1939 in Ontario for being in a relationship with a Chinese immigrant, Harry Yip. She wrote the book Incorrigible in her sixties about her experiences and spent the rest of her life in campaigning for an apology and restitution for all women who had been incarcerated under the Female Refuges Act, the law that imprisoned her for being "incorrigible." It provided a reason that was formulated for police to arrest women who failed to comply wi
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Canadian activist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velma_Demerson
date created:
2012-05-07T07:44:18Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T09:23:22Z
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