Andrew Mercer Ontario Reformatory for Females
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Criminalized Women and Girls’ Ancestral Research: Supporting Descendants of Those Incarcerated or Born at the Institution and Adopted.
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https://andrewmercerreformatory.org/
#PrisonAdoptees #PrisonBorn #PunishedInUtero #Genealogy
https://andrewmercerreformatory.org/
🧵The Andrew Mercer Reformatory was one of many carceral institutions in Ontario that imprisoned over 20,000 women and girls.
To read the text beneath the photos on the heritage plaque, please visit: andrewmercerreformatory.org/heritage-pla...
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To read the text beneath the photos on the heritage plaque, please visit: andrewmercerreformatory.org/heritage-pla...
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October 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
🧵The Andrew Mercer Reformatory was one of many carceral institutions in Ontario that imprisoned over 20,000 women and girls.
To read the text beneath the photos on the heritage plaque, please visit: andrewmercerreformatory.org/heritage-pla...
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To read the text beneath the photos on the heritage plaque, please visit: andrewmercerreformatory.org/heritage-pla...
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A Mercer descendant exploring femininity, class, morality, and resistance.
This fabric will be joined with printed newspaper clippings from the June 1948 Mercer prison riot — the second month my 17-year-old grandma arrived there.
🎥 Watch the reel:
A Mercer descendant exploring femininity, class, morality, and resistance.
This fabric will be joined with printed newspaper clippings from the June 1948 Mercer prison riot — the second month my 17-year-old grandma arrived there.
🎥 Watch the reel:
September 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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A Mercer descendant exploring femininity, class, morality, and resistance.
This fabric will be joined with printed newspaper clippings from the June 1948 Mercer prison riot — the second month my 17-year-old grandma arrived there.
🎥 Watch the reel:
A Mercer descendant exploring femininity, class, morality, and resistance.
This fabric will be joined with printed newspaper clippings from the June 1948 Mercer prison riot — the second month my 17-year-old grandma arrived there.
🎥 Watch the reel: