A Social History of Huronia Regional Centre

This paper looks at the broader structural conditions and forces in which the Ontario institutions have existed, as opposed to individual biographies or life histories. Also, this analysis works to illuminate dynamics of power that have generally been obscured by dominant historical discourses (for example, public propaganda about the institutions from the Ontario government), and to give voice to those who have traditionally been rendered voiceless by such power dynamics. In 2010 the residents of Huronia Regional Centre, Rideau Regional Centre and Southwestern Regional Centre launched three separate class action lawsuits against the government of Ontario.