John Deadman
Introduction
I started writing my memoirs many years ago when my grandchildren were young as a story of what their old granddad had done in his life. I phrased the narrative in a way that would appeal to children including the title: Meanderings in my Past. The first few chapters about my childhood and schooling sat there, for years, until finally as I approached retirement, I decided that this was the basis of a memoir that I must pursue. I started with biographies of my parents because they were unquestionably the most important influences on my life.
When I started to rewrite the early chapters, I thought that as a memoir they could be condensed into one chapter or even a few comments but my grandchildren, now adults, persuaded me to leave them in because it was all part of the narrative. By the time I got to my university days and the factors that caused me to decide on psychiatry as a career, I was in full harness, ready for the long road. Chapters on postgraduate training, marriage and children rapidly followed, and then it was into my work in the mental hospitals, finally leading to our move to Hamilton and McMaster and my subsequent retirement.
It was a bad time for mental health care with the so-called deinstitutional-ization movement both in Canada and the United States that led to the closing of all the big hospitals, forcing many out of familiar institutions onto the street or in jail. That’s when I ventured into politics – a decision I thought I would never make – and which I sometimes regretted even to this day. But it was the right decision even though it caused many problems in my career and as I look back I would not have it any other way. Sometimes things just turn out that way.
I spend a whole chapter on our campaign against the Ministry of Health and the Mental Health Division that had in many ways turned against psychiatry. Many of my friends told me that ‘you can’t beat city hall’ but despite all odds we did beat the Ministry and the resulting agreements forced them to change their policies and to offer increased benefits to psychiatrists in the system. Although the old mental hospitals are now all closed, the new hospitals that have replaced them are much better and there has been a revolution in the way mental health care is offered, not only in Ontario, but right across Canada. We are proud that we were one of the forces that brought about that change.
Since then I returned to clinical work and I concentrated on the chronically mentally ill – those who had been the patients in the old mental hospitals. I worked with schizophrenia for many years and also with psychiatric emergencies and my strong interest in history. In the past few years I have worked with the Forensic Psychiatry Program at McMaster on various history projects and working with students on research projects. The other half of my time was spent in the Community Psychiatry Clinic working with people who had post-traumatic stress disorder and other severe anxiety problems. Now, as I move into retirement, I reflect on a life well lived.
I come from a medical family. My father, William James Deadman, was born to a pioneering family in Simcoe County. This story is told in Chapter One so I will simply note that dad struggled to get an education and worked as a school teacher in the Queen’s Bush to earn enough money to go to university. He finally graduated in medicine in 1913 and started training in pathology at John’s Hopkins University just before the Great War broke out in 1914. He spent four years overseas, with service in Egypt and Macedonia. When he returned in 1919 to the Hamilton General Hospital, he was the only pathologist with formal training in the whole area. He loved his work and could not imagine any other career for a young guy.
My mother also had more education than was usual for women in those days. She trained in voice and violin at the Toronto Conservatory of Music under Healey Willan who became a legend in Canadian music. She went on to a very busy life in Hamilton and was a great support to me when I decided to go into psychiatry instead of pathology.
I remember that my father was not happy with my decision to go into psychiatry (he wanted me to be a pathologist like he was) but when I persisted, he said to me: “John, I don’t care what you do actually, just don’t be a hack.” I would like to think that he is proud of me now. I have tried to do the best work I could and taken on challenges so I think that I was not a hack.
My father died in April, 1965 just four months after Sir Winston Churchill who was his inspiration during the Second World War. He left me a legacy that I have tried to maintain throughout my life. He was very much a Renaissance man. He was interested in everything around him included the advances in medicine that were bursting onto the scene in the late 19th century. He was warm, engaging and generous to a fault. He always had a joke to tell and often used this to advantage in his public speaking. He was born into a pioneering family just 2 decades after Confederation.
He found work on the farm to be hard at a time when farm families ate well but otherwise were dirt poor. He determined that he would get an education and finally became a physician and then a pathologist at a time before this was formally recognized as a specialty. He founded the forensic pathology program in Hamilton – one of the first in Canada. He was a member of at least two dozen professional associations from all over the western world. He died as he had lived. He never gave up until his final illness forced him into hospital where he died a week later. His reputation lived beyond him. He was very much a family man. I was his only son and he could be very tolerant of my misbehaviours up to a point. But when his patience was tried too much he could act decisively.
My mother loved music and was also ambitious. She had a good education including a certificate in violin and voice from the Toronto Conservatory of Music. She was very much in the social whirl of Hamilton after the Great War and was a loyal, loving partner. After my father’s death, she had a life of travel to all parts of the world until just before her death in 1982. Again she had many plans on the go and was greatly missed by family and friends.
I was at public school in the country with farm labourers’ children, many of them from the Six Nations Reserve near Brantford. It gave me a broad respect for others who often faced discrimination and maltreatment. It also gave me a respect and tolerance for difference. My subsequent education and career reflected this. One of the appeals of psychiatry to me was working with troubled people whom I could help to cope better with life. I was very active with senior positions in the mental hospital system, with government and then at McMaster University in Hamilton. I retired finally at the end of 2019.
In retirement I am concentrating on my books and enjoying a rich social life. These have recently been compromised by the COVID pandemic. We were living in our big house on Lovers Lane and finding it increasingly difficult to maintain. We decided that we should sell the house and move into a retirement residence. They prepared a large suite for us to be available at the end of November. But then Beatrice was stricken with infections and died on November 10th. After the funeral and the settlement of the estate, I felt better and feel hopeful for the future and a time when I can work on my books and be active again.
Subsequently, I developed water retention that was threatening my heart function. I was left with an indwelling catheter that required a move to a retirement home that could handle these things. I am now in Waterloo and continue to cope.
Acknowledgements
I acknowledge all the help I have received from my previous writings. I am not an easy writer and usually fuss over passages until I am satisfied. Perhaps I am obsessive but I have been all my life so I am unlikely to change now. However the work over many years with Paul Cameron, Jon Ennis, Gary Chaimowitz, Sam Sussman, David Streiner, Judy Smith and many others has helped me very much. I must also acknowledge my spouses, Francis and Beatrice who helped me and supported me at all times.
Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
One: My Ancestry: Father’s Side of the Family 1
The Deadmans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The Carruthers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Father’s Recollections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
His Career as a Teacher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
University and Medical School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Hamilton City Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Johns Hopkins and the Great War . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
The Hamilton City Pathologist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Two: My Ancestry: Later Stages in his career . . . 16
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch!! . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
The Hamilton City Pathologist . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
The Great Depression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Professional Life . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
The Torso Murder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Many Other Things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Post-Retirement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
And Then… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
My Personal Recollections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Three: My Ancestry: Mother’s Side of the Family 30
The Trenamans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
The Pingles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Grandparents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Mother’s Recollections . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
The Roaring Twenties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Meeting Mt Father . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
The Motor Car . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
The Dirty Thirties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
World Traveller . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
By Camper-Van to Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Active to the End . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Four: Earliest Recollections . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 48
Beginnings . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Grandmother’s Cottage at Port Dover . . . . . . . . . . 50
Theresa . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Aunt Christine . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Uncle Eric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
The Farm at Aldershot . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Five: Growing up in Aldershot . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Life and Friends in the Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Out of the City, into the Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Concessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
The Old Farmhouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Life on the Farm . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Port Dover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Winter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Spring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Asparagus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Summer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Autumn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
A Child’s Christmas in Aldershot . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Nursery School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Six: Construction .. . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
The Original House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Renovations, First Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Renovations, Next Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Living in a Construction Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Cars and Trolleys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Radial Cars . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Building the Queen Elizabeth Way . . . . . .. . . . . . 89
Seven: School Days in the Country: S.S No. 14, Nelson Twp 92
Public School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Broken Arms and Other Mayhem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
The Kids in School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
The Strap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
The Brick Slinger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Piano Lessons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Skating Lessons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Sundays at the Lab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Cubs and Scouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Sunday School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Summer Camp at Erie Heights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Mrs. Gray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
The Summer of ‘43 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Eight: The Second World War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
The King and Queen Come to Canada . . . .. . . .. 115
My First Motor Trip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
The Second World War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Life During the War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Second Trip to Quebec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
The Summer of ‘43 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Nine: The High School Years Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
The Summer of ‘43 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
The Summer of ‘44 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
The Rope Railway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 134
121The Summer of ‘45 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Fall of ’45 – Off to Trinity College School . . . . . . 138
Ten: Trinity College School Part II . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Winter and Spring of ‘46 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Trip to Washington with Cousin Mary . . . . . . . . . . 146
The Summer of ‘46 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
The Fall of ’46 – Back to TCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
The Summer of ‘47 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Building Radios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 154
My Third Year at TCS, 1947-8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
The Summer of ‘48 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
My Final Year at TCS, 1948-9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Port Dover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
The Summer of ‘49 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Eleven: University Days: The University of Toronto
Arts at University Collage . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
First Year, 1949-50 Honour Science . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Football Season . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 168
University Naval Training Division . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Homecoming at Western . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Back at the Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Campus Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Summer 1950, Cottage in Haliburton . . . . . . . . . . 173
Second Year, 1950-51 Physiology and Biochemistry 174
’73 and Hart House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Fraternity Row . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Final Exams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Third Year, 1951-52 – Four Year General Course . 178
Social Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
My start in Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Summer 1952 – Dominion Foundries . . . . . . . . . . . 181
The Institute of World Affairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Back at the Ranch Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Fourth Year, 1951-52 – Graduation from Arts . . . . . 184
Middlemarch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Social Life – Continued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
The Literary and athletic Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
The U. C. Follies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Graduation in Arts and the Summer of ‘53 . . . . . . . 187
Cars, Betsy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Summer Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Cottage and Stuff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Twelve: In the Navy, University Naval Training Divisions 191
First Summer, 1950, Stadacona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
The First Cruise, H.M.C.S. La Hulloise . . . . . . . . . . 194
Back to Stadacona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Second Summer, 1952. H.M.C.S. Swansea . . . . . . 198
Cruise to the British Isles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
48 Hours in London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Lamlash, Belfast and back to Slackers . . . . . . . . . . 207
Stadacona and Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Thirteen: Part II: Great Lakes Training Command . . . . 211
1954, Summer on the Great Lakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
H.M.C.S. Kentville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
1955, The Next Summer on the Great Lakes . . . . . 218
H.M.C.S. Wallaceburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Back to GLTC Base . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Fourteen: University Days: The University of Toronto
Part II: Faculty of Medicine . . . . . . . . .. . . . 224
First Year of Medicine, Fall of ’53 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Hurricane Hazel . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Getting Through Exams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Second Year of Medicine, Fall of ’54 . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Discovery of DNA Genetic Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Summer of ’55 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Third Year of Medicine, Fall of ’55 . . . .. . . . . . . . . 229
Social Life – Meeting Fran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
The Class of 5T7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Plans for the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Summer of ’56. Cook’s Tour of Europe . . . . . . . . . 233
New York and S.S. Liberté . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Canterbury and the Continent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Paris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 236
On to Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Austria and Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Belgium and Holland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 239
Stay with the Ravenscrofts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Aber Soch, Dublin, Edinburgh and Home . . . . . . . 239
Final Year of Medicine, Fall of ’56 . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Things Get Serious . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Graduation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Fifteen: Aesculapius and Venus: . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Francis Helen Taylor: Family Background . . . . . . 246
The Sault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
The Taylors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
The Myers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Childhood and Schooling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Things Get Serious . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Juniour Interneship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Wedding Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Montreal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 254
August 2nd, 1958. The Big Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
The Honeymoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 257
Settling Down to Married Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Life in the Metropolis . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 261
Montreal Winter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Spring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Back to TO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
New Arrival . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Sixteen: Post Graduate Training: Montreal, Toronto – Medicine, Psychiatry, Pathology . . . . . . . . . 268
First Rotation – Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Second Rotation – Obs & Gyne. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 270
Third Rotation – Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Fourth Rotation – This and That . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
The Trip to Montreal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Settling in at Queen Mary Vets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Senior Internship, Medical Rotation . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Senior Internship, Rotation on Neurology . . . .. . . . 276
An Introduction to Psychiatry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Senior Internship, Rotation on Psychiatry . . . . . . . 278
Back in TO. Residency in Pathology . . . . . . . . . . 280
Cockroaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Decision Time Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Move to Psychiatry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
Seventeen: a Career in Psychiatry: Training and Experience, Community M. H. Clinics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
First Rotation: General Hospital Psychiatry . . . . . . 287
Fatherhood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Second Rotation: Mental Hospital Psychiatry . . . . 291
Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Links to the CIA? Brainwashing? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Third Rotation: Forensic Psychiatry . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Fourth Rotation: Child Psychiatry . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 296
Family Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 297
Seniour Externe at TPH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Junior Staff man, at the Day Care Centre . . . . . . . . . 299
Junior Staffman at the Mental Health Clinic . . . . . . 301
To the Ontario Hospital New Toronto . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Steel Fire Escapes and the Civil Service Attitude . . . 305
Raising the Boys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . 307
All Saints Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
The Great Power Failure and Other Memories . . . . . 309
Edmonton and the Rockies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Juvenile and Family Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Eighteen: 10 Years at Whitby: Part I
Whitby Psychiatric Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . 312
A Job Offer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
First Impressions of Whitby . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 315
Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
The Mental Health Clinic Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
The Mental Retardation Branch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
‘Woodstock’ North . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Great Days for Community Psychiatry . . . . . . . . . 321
“An Army Marches on its Stomach” . . . . . . . . .. . . . 322
Daily Routines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
A Brief History of the Whitby Hospital . . . . . . . . . 324
The Structure of an Old Mental Hospital . . . . . . . . . 326
20th Century Reforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
The Adolescent Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
A Significant Promotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Nineteen 10 Years at Whitby: Part 2:
Whitby Psychiatric Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . 322
More Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
The Church of Scientology . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 326
Reorganization 1972 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
The 4 Phase Program. Expansion of the Adolescent Program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
The Alcoholism Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Rehabilitation Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Patient Rights and the 1972 Federal Election . . . . . 330
Some Anecdotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
New Dining Hall and Food Service . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
The Geriatric Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Renovations to the Pavilions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Reorganization 1976 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
More Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
The Chaplaincy Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Change of Administrators . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 337
Suicide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
Applying to Kingston for Medical Director Position . 339
Twenty: family Life in Toronto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Sailing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
The Brigantines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
Trips to the Sault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Camping Trips . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Around Lake Superior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
The Ski Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . 348
Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 349
Stephen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 349
Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
Peter Ravenscroft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
A New House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Camping Trips Continued . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 353
Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Pop Taylor Dies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
Robin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
The Opera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
The Move to McMaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
Trip to England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
Home Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Twenty One: Consultant in the Ministry of health . . . 365
The Adult Community Mental Health Program . . . 367
Ministry Program Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
Ministry Work 1977 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
McMaster University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
All Saints Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
Conference in Banff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Conferences and Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
A Ministry Complainant who became a Patient . . . . 376
The Night of long Knives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
Campbell, Red Lake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
Norontair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 380
Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 381
Private Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 381
Mississauga Train Derailment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
Into 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 383
Ministry Work 1981 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
Trip to Jamaica . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484
Twenty Two: More Problems in Ministry of health . 386
The Year 1981 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
The Year 1982 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
The Ontario Hypnosis Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
Dan Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 388
Ministry Work 1982 .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
North Bay Psychiatric Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
More Ministry Work .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394
New Project Officers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Mental Health Course at Seneca College . . . . .. . . 397
Ministry Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
Ministry Work 1983 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
My Parachute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
Twenty Three: A Move to McMaster . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
The Fennell Community Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
House Hunting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Settling in at McMaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Moving to Ancaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
The Ski Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
Back at the Hospital, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
The Black Sheep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
Grandma Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
Back to the Hospital, Continued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
The Challenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
Twenty Four: the big Campaign . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420
Negotiations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 421
The Strike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
Life goes on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424
Conciliation Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426
Negotiations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426
What Next? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428
And Back to Other Things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
Twenty Five: Life in Ancaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430
The Century Manor Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
A Trip to Scotland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432
Exploring the Old Town . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432
Touring the Highlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
Hadrian’s Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435
Western Scotland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435
The Gang of Six . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452
The Year 1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 454
Closer to Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454
Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 456
Setting up the Fennell Community Team as a New
Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456
Strictly Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458
Task Force on Sexual Abuse of Patients . . . . . . . . . 459
Family Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 460
Twenty Six: GRIEF AND WIDOWHOOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464
More Travelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464
Our Last Trip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464
From Winchester to Lands End . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
To Wellesbourne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
Trips to Coventry and Stately Homes . . . . . . . . . . . 470
Family Weddings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 471
Trips in 1993 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472
Twenty Seven: THE S TART OF ANOTHER LIFE . . . . . . 475
Family Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
Travels with Sam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 476
Off to Tucson . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
Weekend Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 477
Bisbee and the Queen Mine . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 478
Around Tucson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478
To Phoenix and the Grand Canyon . .. . . . . . . . . . . 480
San Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
Back Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482
Grandchildren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 483
Back to the Grind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484
The Makings of a Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486
David Dawson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488
More Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489
Home Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490
Ellingtons’ Visit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490
Second Trip to England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
On to York and the Lake District. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492
On to Scotland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493
Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 494
Christmas in Tucson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
Back Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496
The APA Convention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497
Twenty Eight: SECOND MARRIAGE AND A NEW LIFE . . 498
Meeting Beatrice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498
Back Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499
Beatrice, Family History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499
First Marriage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Dudley Collins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502
The Wedding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
New Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504
Political Intervention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505
A Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506
Cape Cod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506
And Then Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507
Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508
The Year 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509
Tewkesbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510
Wellesbourn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511
Nottingham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512
Chatsworth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
Waddiston Manor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
The Conference in London.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514
Return Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
Back to the Routine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
Cars .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
Other Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
Twenty Nine: A NEW LIFE TOGETHER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520
Into 1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520
Busy Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
To Calgary and Victoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522
The Year 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524
UNTD Reunion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524
The Year 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526
Trip to Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526
Back Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528
Summer . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529
A Trip to Quebec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530
The Year 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
Cancun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532
Back to the Cottage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534
A Trip to ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535
Belfast and Northern Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536
The Year 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538
River Cruise on the Rhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539
Paris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541
Home Again. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541
Thirty: THE NEXT STAGE IN OUR LIFE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542
UNTD Reunion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543
To Nova Scotia and Newfoundland . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544
On to Newfoundland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544
St. Johns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547
The Year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549
Trip to Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550
The Rest of 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551
The Year 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553
Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554
The Big Storm . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555
A Trip to England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556
On with our Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557
The Year 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557
Trip to France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558
Carcassonne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559
Home Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561
Thirty one: THE NEXT STAGE IN OUR LIFE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562
The Year 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562
Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563
The Big Storm . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564
A Trip to England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565
On with our Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566
The Year 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567
Trip to France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567
Carcassonne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568
Home Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570
Trip to Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571
Back to the Grind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572
More Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573
Budapest and Prague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575
On to Prague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576
The Year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578
The Year 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579
Thirty Two: WINTER HOLIDAYS AND RIVER CRUISES . . . . 580
Los Cabos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580
Cruise on the Rhine and Danube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581
Rothenburg to Nurenburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582
Main Danube Canal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583
Vienna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584
The Year 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585
Trip to Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586
On to St Petersburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587
St Petersburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588
Paris . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589
Thirty Three: BACK TO A QUIETER LIFE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591
CPA Convention and Quebec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593
Trip to Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594
Back Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594
The Year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595
UNTD in Victoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597
The Year 2013 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598
The Year 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599
The Year 2016 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599
The Next Five Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600
Thirty Four: FINAL LIFE AND RETIREMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602
CPA Convention and Quebec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604
The Year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605
UNTD in Victoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608
The Year 2013 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609
The Year 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609
The Year 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609
The Year 2016 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610
The Next Few Years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611
The Funeral . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612
John is Sick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613