Montreal Institute for the Deaf and Mute

The Montreal Institute for the Deaf and Mute was a boarding school operated by the Clerics of St Viateur between 1848 and 1983 in Montreal, Canada.[1]

History

The Montreal Insitutute for the Deaf was founded as L'Institute Catholique des Sourds-Muets[2] (The Catholic School for Deaf Boys) in 1948[3] in Faubourg, Quebec, a neighbourhood in the northeast corner of Montreal.[4] In 1850, the Institute moved to the Mile End area, at the corner of Boulevard St-Joseph and Rue Saint Dominique in Montreal.[4][5] By 1887,[6] workshops for teaching the trades such as bookbinding, shoemaking and printing had been built within the school.[5]

In the 1921, the Institute moved[7] to a new building at 7400 Boulevard Saint-Laurent[8] in Montreal.[9] The building is now listed as a heritage building by the City of Montreal.[10]

In 1983, the Institute ceased teaching at the 7400 Boulveard Saint-Laurent location.[11]

The following year, the Institute Catholique des Sourds-Muets changed its name to L'Institut Raymond-Dewar (English:The Raymond Dewar Institute).[12]

Sexual abuse settlement

In 2012, 60 former students of the Institute filed a class action suit claiming they were sexually abused by priests in the school.[13] The initial class action was joined by other former students, bringing the total number of plaintiffs claiming abuse to 150 students with claims of abuse ranging between 1942 and 1982.[14] The claims by former students were not legally contested by the Clerics of St Viateur.[15] This led to a settlement in 2016 of $30 million from the Clerics of St Viateur and The Raymond Dewar Institute.[14][16] The settlement was the largest settlement ever awarded for a sexual abuse case in Quebec history.[14][17][18] The settlement, authorized in the Superior Court of Quebec, provided for a payment of $20 million from the Canadian Clerics of St. Viateur, and $10 million from The Raymond Dewar Institute, the renamed version of the Institute adopted in 1984.[19][20][21]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Montreal school for the deaf's ex-students allege horrific abuses". CBC. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
  2. ↑ "Deaf Culture". Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
  3. ↑ Besner, Linda. "Distinct Society Discovering Montreal's vibrant Deaf culture". The Walrus. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
  4. 1 2 "4.2 : La famille Beaubien et l'église du Mile End". Memories of Mile End. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
  5. 1 2 Montreal, 1535-1914 ... Chicago. 1914. pp. 488–.
  6. ↑ Sessional Papers. 1887. pp. 2–.
  7. ↑ "Il était une fois...". Centre des Loisirs des Sourds de Montréal. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
  8. ↑ Rapport. La Société. 1949.
  9. ↑ Lypny, Natascia. "Privatizing Montreal". Spacing Montreal. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
  10. ↑ "Les Clercs de Saint-Viateur, Institution des Sourds-Muets". Ville de Montreal. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
  11. ↑ "Réhabilitation - ancienne Institution des sourds-muets" (PDF). Ville de Montreal. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
  12. ↑ "Historique". raymond-dewar.qc.ca. Government of Quebec. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
  13. ↑ John Cornwell (4 March 2014). The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession. Basic Books. pp. 85–. ISBN 978-0-465-08049-6.
  14. 1 2 3 Solyom, Catherine. "Deaf students abused by priests at Clercs de St. Viateur win record $30-million settlement". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
  15. ↑ Nguyen, Michael. "La version des victimes ne sera pas contestée par les Clercs". Le Journal de Montreal. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
  16. ↑ Marin, Stéphanie. "Les victimes des Clercs de Saint-Viateur se partageront 30 millions". Le Devoir. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
  17. ↑ "Historic $30M settlement reached in Montreal deaf school sex abuse suit". CBC. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
  18. ↑ Pelletier, Joseph. "Quebec Abuse Settlement Largest in Province History". Church Militant. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
  19. ↑ "Centre de la communauté sourde du Montréal métropolitain c. Institut Raymond-Dewar" (PDF). adidem.org. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
  20. ↑ "Indemnisation record dans un dossier d'agressions sexuelles sur mineurs". Radio-Canada. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
  21. ↑ Nguyen, Michaël. "30 millions pour les 150 sourds agressés sexuellement". TVA-Nouvelles. Retrieved 25 June 2016.

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