Herve Bertrand remembers the day well -- March 18, 1955 -- when a nun
told him and the others in his third-grade class at the Mont Providence
orphanage in north Montreal that they had all been declared "mentally
deficient."
He was 12 and did not fully realize the implications. The nun, Sister Colette Francoise of the Sisters of Providence, was in tears. Outside the small windows of the massive redbrick structure, the sullen gray sky was like a slab of cold steel.
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/21/world/orphans-of-the-1950-s-telling-of-abuse-sue-quebec.html
He was 12 and did not fully realize the implications. The nun, Sister Colette Francoise of the Sisters of Providence, was in tears. Outside the small windows of the massive redbrick structure, the sullen gray sky was like a slab of cold steel.
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/21/world/orphans-of-the-1950-s-telling-of-abuse-sue-quebec.html