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, Quebec.[1]

History

The Montreal Institute for the Deaf was founded as L'Institute Catholique des Sourds-Muets[2] (The Catholic School for Deaf Boys) in 1848[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 Boulevard 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] 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.[18][19][20]

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. "4.2 : La famille Beaubien et l'église du Mile End". Memories of Mile End. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
  5. 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. Archived from the original on 5 May 2016. 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. 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. "Centre de la communauté sourde du Montréal métropolitain c. Institut Raymond-Dewar" (PDF). adidem.org. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
  19. "Indemnisation record dans un dossier d'agressions sexuelles sur mineurs". Radio-Canada. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
  20. Nguyen, Michaël. "30 millions pour les 150 sourds agressés sexuellement". TVA-Nouvelles. Retrieved 25 June 2016.

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