I have been researching and writing about the dark side of psychiatry particularly in relation to secret Cold War LSD experiments on children in Montreal at McGill and elsewhere across Canada.
I have a photo of Doctors Ewen Cameron and and Heinz Lehmann standing with a group of other doctors outside the Misericorde hospital in Montreal in 1959. This was a hospital for. unwed mothers and also an orphanage. At the time Lehmann was directing the research institute of the Allan Memorial. What are two Mc Gill psychiatrists doing in a group photo on the steps of this hospital? What legitimate reason would they have to be there?
I am guessing the secret reason is they are setting up an agreement to get children for use in experiments. We know there were orphans living in a sealed off wing of the Allan in those years.
Cameron and Lehmann were key figures in what appears to have been a eugenics program operating out of McGill. Lehmann had trained in Nazi Germany at precisely the universities where the infamous T4 eugenics program was developed. He came to Quebec in 1937 and was soon placed in charge of a major psychiatric hospital known as a place where patients were zombified with drugs and ECT.
There was also a link with New York and Massachusetts hospitals and military bases like Plattsburgh AF base known to have used trafficked orphans from Quebec in classified experiments. Some of this information comes from surviving orphans.
Cameron worked with Dr Nolan D C Lewis from the NY Psychiatric Institute where a Nazi doctor Franz Kalman had run a eugenics program since the 1930s. Lewis worked with Cameron giving LSD to children in the 1950s at McGill.
They needed a lot of children in those days and Quebec was a baby factory, with the highest birth rate in the western world.
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Interesting.
I was born at the Misericorde hostpital in 1963, and spent the first six months of my life there before being adopted.
Much later, in the 80's, i worked at the MNI, and found out then about the infamous Allen Memorial reasearch.
I hope against hope there was no connection.I'll bet the english medical world, then as now, was a small one. Just about everyone knew everyone else.
On the other hand, many of the orphans at the Misericorde were deemed to be mentally 'deficient'.
Interesting.
Dear C.
That is extremely interesting... that you were born at Misericorde and later worked at the MNI. And from googling your name, I see you now live in Toronto and like Leonard Cohen. (I hope against hope there is no connection, although there might be.)
You were lucky to have been adopted. I have met others who were born in Misericorde, and one or two who were labelled mentally deficient, but in talking to them it seems more likely they were guinea pigs in some great experiment which has been quite successfully covered up. And yes, they all knew one another, and maybe this is one reason the cover-up succeeded.
Thank you for leaving this comment, and sorry I only found it today.
Hello -
I was born at Misericorde Hospital in December, 1961. I have been searching for my birth mother for a while now, only to find out she died in 1997. When I started researching where I was born, I was appalled and shocked by the practices of the Misericorde back then... I was one of the lucky ones, not being deemed mentally deficient and eventually adopted into the U.S. in 1963.
My mother had a daughter at Misericorde in December 1963. I am still looking for her.
MY MOTHER was born there in 1954... her last name is Marcoux. Any link to it...
Hi
I was born here in 1968 and am just now searching my birth parents. This is the first Ive heard of this and would be interested to learn more. Thank you for puting this out for all to see.
Dean
I was born at Misericorde Hospital in 1957 and adopted to Lieselotte Burkhardt and Roger Joseph Zotique Chartrand. I was told my birth name was Laura.
I am in search of my birth parents and siblings.
I have been told that many adotees information were changed/modified.
Is there anyone who can help me get adoption records. My parents say there are none.
charlotte.heidi@yahoo.com
My mother (born in 1931)was adopted out of the orphanage at Mc Gill University by a pediatric med student named Chester Mead in 1933. I am trying to find out more about it. I have heard from relatives that it was a place where medical experiments/shots were tried out on the orphans. Does anyone know more about this?
Thank You,
Eve
Comment for Kyle (Eve) -
Hi - try looking up Dupleiss orphans and that should give you some more information about what experiments were conducted at Misericorde.....
I was born in Misericorde Dieu Aug 21, 1952 to the name of Gisele Beaulieu. I am looking for my mother and any sibling. My mom was born in approximately 1931.
I just found these recent comments. Unfortunately, I can't help locate birth parents. You could try contacting the Duplessis orphans' committee in Montreal -- I will try to find their address but i think you can search for them on the internet. They have an archive.
Rod Vienneau has written a book about the Duplessis orphans -- his wife, Clarina Duguay, is one of them. However, it's in French, as is a lot of the information and archival material.
I hope to post more about this soon--
I highly recommend Rod Vienneau's book on the Duplessis Orphans, available for download at:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/40153255/COLLUSION-THE-DARK-HISTORY-OF-THE-DUPLESSIS-ORPHANS-A-CANADIAN-GENOCIDE-CRIMES-COMMITTED-AT-THE-HANDS-OF-THE-CATHOLIC-CHURCH-AND-STATE
mysavior
I have some updated information from my first post on March 9, 2011
I have received information on my birth mother after almost 1 year from an agency in Montreal. My DOB is 10-25-57, my birth name was Marie, Laura, Rolande. I was born and adopted at Misericorde. She was 20, brown hair and eyes, was a hatter prior to pregnancy. Father had blond hair brown eyes, did not know of pregancy or birth and he was a laborer. I assume my last name was Rolande. I have requested a reunion and hope she is still alive. I have not been given names of either.
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