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Velma Demerson, a lifelong Velma Demerson (September 4, – May 13, ) was a Canadian woman who was imprisoned in in Ontario for being in a relationship with a Chinese immigrant, Harry Yip.
Velma Demerson, an Ontario woman Demerson was sentenced to ten months at Ontario's infamous Mercer Reformatory for Women. There, she said attending physicians performed eugenics testing on her and her unborn child, tests Demerson believes cost the health of her son and sent her down a path of despair and tragedy.
Thrown in jail, stripped Velma Demerson was arrested under Ontario’s Female Refuges Act, used to imprison women suspected of leading “an idle or dissolute life.” The superintendent’s house on King St. W. is the.
In 1939, Velma Demerson Velma Demerson, a lifelong activist and author who fought to have the government acknowledge the injustice of the Ontario Female Refuges Act, died on May 13, at the age of
Velma Demerson was born Velma Demerson, pictured three years ago in Toronto, returned to the city 30 years ago to research documents about her young life and her “hazy past.” The police stormed the Toronto apartment.
Mother is from England, Pregnant and without legal counsel, Velma was sentenced to two years in prison where she was tortured by a eugenicist doctor who attempted to abort her child. 60 years later she sued the Canadian government for wrongful incarceration, and until her death at age 98 in May , continued to fight for the rights of the thousands of women.
In 2002, 62 years "Gemini award winning filmmaker Karin Lee tells the heartbreaking and poignant story of Velma Demerson who was arrested under the Ontario Female Refuges Act () and incarcerated for falling in love with a Chinese man in at the age of 18 in Toronto, Canada.