Duplessis Orphans
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The Duplessis Orphans were a population of Canadian children misdiagnosed as mentally ill by the provincial government of Quebec and confined to psychiatric institutions in the 1940s and 1950s. Many o
Maurice Duplessis in 1952
Maurice Duplessis
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Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis, popularly known as "Le Chef", was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 16th premier of Quebec. A conservative, nationalist, populist, anti-communist, anti-un
Duplessis Orphans
…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 particularly…
Duplessis in 1947
Samuel Genest, president of the Association canadienne-française d'éducation de l'Ontario (1932–33), a Franco-Ontarian advocacy organization, uncle of Maurice Duplessis
Richard-Stanislas Cooke, mayor of Trois-Rivières (1896–98), Liberal MLA for Trois-Rivières, uncle of Maurice Duplessis
William-Pierre Grant, Liberal MLA for Champlain, uncle of Maurice Duplessis