The Duplessis Orphans: A Dark Chapter in Quebec’s History

Children Wrongly Institutionalized

In the 1940s and 1950s, thousands of children in Quebec were falsely declared mentally ill and confined to psychiatric hospitals. Most were born to unwed mothers and placed in religious-run orphanages. The provincial government reclassified these orphanages to receive higher federal funding, leading to the mass misdiagnosis of healthy children.

Abuse Behind Closed Doors

Many orphans suffered extreme mistreatment. Survivors later reported physical and sexual abuse, forced confinement, and medical procedures like electroshock therapy and lobotomies. A 1960s investigation found that a third of psychiatric patients had been misclassified. When institutions were reformed, many orphans were released without support, struggling to reintegrate into society.

The Fight for Justice

By the 1990s, survivors formed a committee demanding compensation. The Quebec government offered settlements, but many victims felt the amounts were insufficient. The Catholic Church denied responsibility, despite its role in running the institutions. Some survivors continued seeking legal action, pushing for accountability from both the government and the Church.

Unanswered Questions

In 2004, calls emerged to exhume unmarked graves at former psychiatric hospitals, suspecting medical experiments on orphans. In 2021, renewed demands were made for further investigations. Survivors continued to seek justice, claiming that the past settlements failed to acknowledge the full extent of the suffering endured.

3 thoughts on “The Duplessis Orphans: A Dark Chapter in Quebec’s History”

  1. What do you know of the Sisters of Charity involvement? I suspect it runs deep. I have an horrific story to tell.

  2. My godmother trafficked me out of an agency in Nova Scotia. Sent me to a dangerous pedophile who was abused himself as a boy by the notorious predator priest Hugh Vincent MacDonald. Everywhere she was placed —there was scandal and abuse. The Duplessis orphan scandal in Quebec? It wasn’t just about receiving 50cents more per child by placing healthy native and illegitimate children in asylums or turning orphanages into asylums where they would perform torturous inhumane experiments on these children (Dr Ewan Cameron and MKUltra funded by the CIA) Google that—after two years learning these evil tactics, she was placed at Shubenacedie Residential School where she helped “assimilate “ abuse and brainwash native children. Same year she was there (though never admitted in her scrubbed obituary) I saw her face in the documentary where Debbie Paul speaks of being trafficked to a nun’s brother in Boston where she was abused at 12 years old. Then – 1975, Louise is stealing babies from their young mothers. I was placed in a home with known intergenerational clergy abuse. There was never protection for us. My mother would try and be turned away.

    She rose in power. Becoming general superior of the sisters of charity. Louise Bray. At 65 years of age she went on to become the director at Southdown institute where predator priests were laundered and funneled out to other parishes to continue hurting children. These people were evil. She had a masters in social work. Somehow managed to label me with a false psychiatric diagnosis so that if I ever did come forward — I was already smeared.

    I fled Canada at 20 years old to Australia thinking that would be far enough away. It wasn’t. I’ve had handlers the entire time I’ve been here. I am scared I will die and no one will learn the truth. How church and state and secret societies like the Freemasons work together to ensure their power remains intact. It’s a wild story. But have every proof imaginable to back it up.

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