The Duplessis Orphans (French: les Orphelins de Duplessis) were the victims of a scheme in which several thousand orphaned children were falsely certified as mentally ill by the government of the province of Quebec, Canada, and confined to psychiatric institutions.
Read more about Duplessis Orphans: Overview, Legal Recourse in The 1990s, Fate of The Remains
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