The act referred to people with disabilities as “insane and dangerous to the community"
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Since the original Canadian immigration legislation
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The medical field developed substantial improvements in technology to help people with disabilities.
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The institutional period. It is generally agreed upon that it was in the late 1800s, when industrialization in Canada was rapidly growing, that public concern regarding disability emerged.
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During this time period the philosophy of “deinstitutionalization” – the idea that people with disabilities should live in communities
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The Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies (CRDS) program is established at the University of Calgary.
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