CONTENTS

Introduction 1

Nancy Hansen, Roy Hanes, and Diane Driedger

SECTION I: SETTING THE STAGE

Chapter 1 “Out from Under”: A Brief History of Everything 8

Kathryn Church, Melanie Panitch, Catherine Frazee, and Phaedra Livingstone

Chapter 2 Posthumous Exploitation? The Ethics of Researching, Writing, and

Being Accountable as a Disability Historian 26

Geoffrey Reaume

Chapter 3 Uncovering Disability History 40

Nancy Hansen

SECTION II: CONFEDERATION TO THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY

Chapter 4 “Blindness Clears the Way”: E. B. F. Robinson’s The True Sphere of the

Blind (1896) 53

Vanessa Warne

Chapter 5 The Education of “Good” and “Useful” Citizens: Work, Disability, and d/Deaf Citizenship at the Ontario Institution for the Education of the Deaf, 1892–1902 66

Alessandra Iozzo-Duval

Chapter 6 “An Excuse for Being So Bold”: D. W. McDermid and the Early

Development of the Manitoba Institute for the Deaf and Dumb,
1888–1900 91

Sandy R. Barron

Chapter 7 Remembering the Boys 110

Caroline E. M. Carrington-Decker

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Chapter 8 “Someone in Toronto … Paid Her Way Out Here”: Indentured Labour and Medical Deportation—The Precarious Work of Single Women 121

Natalie Spagnuolo

Chapter 9 Service Clubs and the Emergence of Societies for Crippled Children in Canada: The Rise of the Ontario Society for Crippled Children,

1920–1940 140

Roy Hanes

SECTION III: INTO THE MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY

Chapter 10 Work, Education, and Privilege: An Alberta City’s Parasitical

Relationship to Its Total Institution for “Mental Defectives” 163

Claudia Malacrida

Chapter 11 Disability as Social Threat: Examining the Social Justice Implications of Canada’s Eugenic History 179

Phillip B. Turcotte

Chapter 12 The Impact of Ventilation Technology: Contrasting Consumer and

Professional Perspectives 196

Joseph Kaufert and David Locker

SECTION IV: THE 1960S TO THE 1980S

Chapter 13 Je me souviens: The Hegemony of Stairs in the Montreal

Métro 207

Laurence Parent

Chapter 14 Organizing for Change: The Origins and History of the Manitoba

League of the Physically Handicapped, 1967–1982 221

Diane Driedger

Chapter 15 The Council of Canadians with Disabilities: A Voice of Our Own,

1976–2012 243

April D’Aubin

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Chapter 16 Building an Accessible House of Labour: Work, Disability Rights, and the Canadian Labour Movement 268

Dustin Galer

Chapter 17 The Habeas Corpus of Justin Clark 282

Marilou McPhedran

SECTION V: TO THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND

Chapter 18 Winnipeg Community Centre of the Deaf: Program Development as

Community Development 297

Charlotte Enns, Bruce Koskie, Rita Bomak, and Gregory Evans

Chapter 19 History of Science and Technology and Canadians with

Disabilities 306

Gregor Wolbring and Natalie Ball

Chapter 20 “Like Alice through the Looking Glass” II: The Struggle for

Accommodation Continues 320

Vera Chouinard

Chapter 21 Triple Jeopardy: Native Women with Disabilities 339

Doreen Demas

Chapter 22 The Community Inclusion Project in Manitoba: Planning for the

Residents of the Pelican Lake Training Centre 345

Zana Marie Lutfiyya, Dale C. Kendel, and Karen D. Schwartz

Chapter 23 Living in the Midst: Re-imagining Disability through

Auto/biography 356

Kelly McGillivray

Contributors 368

Copyright Acknowledgements 374