Andrew Mercer Reformatory 🇨🇦 @AMReformatory
Criminalized Women & Girl’s - Ancestral Research. Supporting descendants whose ancestors were either incarcerated or born at the institution and adopted. andrewmercerreformatory.org Joined June 2022-
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Many women & girls imprisoned at Mercer were admitted from, or transferred to, other places of regulation. Stats below is an institution that ONLY took infants. From 1879-1884: · Admitted 726 · Deaths 𝟔𝟗𝟗 The same year 59 of 169 infants died at the Infants Home, Toronto
Most #Adoptees born of criminalized & incarcerated mothers are unaware!! This one slipped through the cracks though 👇 #HiddenHistories Barriers here: bit.ly/3QwQpSj
Industrial Refuge for Girls 1880-1905: mapped are places of residences prior to being imprisoned, then trained as domestics & apprenticed. Many placements did not go well with girls being returned (some pregnant) but to the women side of the reformatory. google.com/maps/d/viewer?…
"In order to steal our territories and our resources, they had to find ways to oppress us, contain us, control us, and remove us from those territories." — @Pam_Palmater tells @chris_beaver Why Indigenous Peoples Are Over-Incarcerated in Canada | NDN POV youtu.be/-ob2Od7rwd0?si…
Young Dora, silent as a doe among the wolves, never opened her lips. Released after 18 mths, only to be found dead at the Haven in Toronto. Many women & girls, or their babies died during their imprisonment, or after release. More deaths have been posted on the website.
Treaty 8 officials say the #Adoption and Private Guardianship Law ends adoptions and private guardianships involving Treaty 8 children. #Canada #notforsale #indigenousrights #indigenousvoices #nativevoices #stolenchildren #stolenculture #babyscoop globalnews.ca/news/10364819/…
No doubt Toronto benefited but ultimately these terrorized women & girls across Ont. were stigmatized, shamed & traumatized into silence from 1880 until closure in 1969. The process of securing funds that built the house of horrors. 👇
The Archives of Ontario holds stories about the hidden people of the past. Researcher Terri is eager to uncover and share the stories of unknown women in the province's asylums, which date back to 1841. Learn more about Terri's project at: ow.ly/HhNh50QIe18. #IWD2024
Article on “Juvenile Delinquents” at Ont Training Schools. Thus the process of surveillance began as the girls remained under wardship until the age of 18. Often girls were later detained at Mercer for the slightest misbehavior & many because they were pregnant. A 1964 article👇
Articles will report it as a serious crime & he receives a few yrs sentence. Tragically his daughter is treated as in need of reform rather than receive the proper help for the rape she suffered. Many girls endured months of “reform” at Mercer with an offence listed as incest.
Threats to take away #MercerBabies was a tactic to keep the mothers compliant. What moms didn’t know was if single, divorced, widowed, or separated, babies were secured by the Children's Aid Society upon release anyways. #Straps #Dungeons #TortureChamber #Adoptee #Adoption
#FRA Injustices removed? Were they? Many women & girls were confined under the FRA & subsequently transferred to other institutions. How do #adoptees know if they were born of a FRA mother? They won't! Too many legislative barriers preventing knowledge of. #HiddenHistories
Was your relative apprehended? Women & girls were stigmatized, shamed & traumatized into silence, taking their grim confinement story to the grave. In a book called Disability Injustice, Raymond states: “Pieces of legislation, such as the Female...👇 #SecretMercerBabies #Adoptees
Man beats wife, fined. Man beats wife, 2nd time, Extra-Mural Permit. Man beats wife, 3rd time, jailed. Now children secured for domestic service & #adoption as the wife is unable to support them. Full story coming soon about one of the children later at Mercer & so much more!
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