Untold Stories

Nancy Hansen is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Interdisciplinary Master’s Program in Disability Studies at the University of Manitoba.Roy Hanes is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Carleton University.Diane Driedger is an Assistant Professor in the Interdisciplinary Master’s Program in Disability Studies at the University of Manitoba.

The title of My Will Remains is drawn from a quote by Frida Kahlo (1907–1954), the Mexican artist. Her work resonates with me as an artist who has worked lying down, as she did. I have joined her, proclaiming my sisterhood as I work lying down due to my pain and fatigue with my disability. Kahlo is my role model for persisting, for working—lying down does not mean being unproductive."" - Diane Driedger, artist and editor

• IntroductionNancy Hansen, Roy Hanes, and Diane DriedgerSection I: Setting the StageChapter 1“Out from Under”: A Brief History of EverythingKathryn Church, Melanie Panitch, Catherine Frazee, and Phaedra LivingstoneChapter 2Posthumous Exploitation? The Ethics of Researching, Writing, and Being Accountable as a Disability HistorianGeoffrey ReaumeChapter 3Uncovering Disability HistoryNancy HansenSection II: Confederation to the Early Twentieth CenturyChapter 4“Blindness Clears the Way”: E. B. F. Robinson’s The True Sphere of the Blind (1896)Vanessa WarneChapter 5The Education of “Good” and “Useful” Citizens: Work, Disability, and d/Deaf Citizenship at the Ontario Institution for the Education of the Deaf, 1892–1902Alessandra Iozzo-DuvalChapter 6“An Excuse for Being So Bold”: D. W. McDermid and the Early Development of the Manitoba Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, 1888–1900Sandy R. BarronChapter 7Remembering the BoysCaroline E. M. Carrington-DeckerChapter 8“Someone in Toronto … Paid Her Way Out Here”: Indentured Labour and Medical Deportation—The Precarious Work of Single WomenNatalie SpagnuoloChapter 9Service Clubs and the Emergence of Societies for Crippled Children in Canada: The Rise of the Ontario Society for Crippled Children, 1920–1940Roy HanesSection III: Into the Mid-twentieth CenturyChapter 10Work, Education, and Privilege: An Alberta City’s Parasitical Relationship to Its Total Institution for “Mental Defectives”Claudia MalacridaChapter 11Disability as Social Threat: Examining the Social Justice Implications of Canada’s Eugenic HistoryPhillip B. TurcotteChapter 12The Impact of Ventilation Technology: Contrasting Consumer and Professional PerspectivesJoseph Kaufert and David LockerSection IV: The 1960s to the 1980sChapter 13Je me souviens: The Hegemony of Stairs in the Montreal MétroLaurence ParentChapter 14Organizing for Change: The Origins and History of the Manitoba League of the Physically Handicapped, 1967–1982Diane DriedgerChapter 15The Council of Canadians with Disabilities: A Voice of Our Own, 1976–2012April D’AubinChapter 16Building an Accessible House of Labour: Work, Disability Rights, and the Canadian Labour MovementDustin GalerChapter 17Justin Clark and the Writ of Habeas CorpusMarilou McPhedranSection V: To the End of the Twentieth Century and BeyondChapter 18Winnipeg Community Centre of the Deaf: Program Development as Community DevelopmentCharlotte Enns, Bruce Koskie, Rita Bomak, and Gregory EvansChapter 19History of Science and Technology and Canadians with DisabilitiesGregor Wolbring and Natalie BallChapter 20“Like Alice through the Looking Glass” II: The Struggle for Accommodation ContinuesVera ChouinardChapter 21Triple Jeopardy: Native Women with DisabilitiesDoreen DemasChapter 22The Community Inclusion Project in Manitoba: Planning for the Residents of the Pelican Lake Training CentreZana Marie Lutfiyya, Dale C. Kendel, and Karen D. SchwartzChapter 23Living in the Midst: Re-imagining Disability through Auto/biographyKelly McGillivrayContributorsCopyright Acknowledgements