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Disability Sector Legacy Project Disability Sector Legacy Project
29 Mar

1907

The act referred to people with disabilities as “insane and dangerous to the community"

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29 Mar

1906

Since the original Canadian immigration legislation

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29 Mar

1900’s-1960’s

The medical field developed substantial improvements in technology to help people with disabilities.    

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29 Mar

1800’s

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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08 Apr

1960s through 1970

During this time period the philosophy of “deinstitutionalization” – the idea that people with disabilities should live in communities

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08 Apr

1979

The Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies (CRDS) program is established at the University of Calgary.

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