Memories of the Ontario Hospital School, Orillia

Dec 23, 2017

Warning: This video includes disturbing content concerning eugenics, institutional abuse and neglect, rape, restraint and seclusion and death.

Carrieanne Tompkins was the fourth and final member of her family to be institutionalised at the Ontario Hospital School, Orillia aka the Huronia Regional Centre. In this video Carrieanne tells her story from the grounds of the facility where she spent nearly a decade of her life. This video includes historical images of the Ontario Hospital School, Orillia as well as photographs of Carrieanne and her family, images from the photo essay Christmas In Purgatory and stock footage from several sources.

For more information on the Huronia Regional Centre visit the Remember Every Name Facebook group at or the A Hell On Earth Facebook page.

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We wish to acknowledge that this website was created thanks to a grant from the Investing in Justice fund. This fund existed because there was money left over from the Huronia Regional Centre class action settlement.

InvestIng in Justice projects enable survivors to tell the world what really happened in Ontario's government-run institutions and what it takes to instead have a good life at home and in their own communities. This fund also enabled the creation of the survivors cemetery monument at the HRC cemetery, and supported "Lost but not Forgotten" Mothers Day memorial gatherings there. Please see our Resource page for information about some of the other projects that benefited from this funding.

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Memories of the Ontario Hospital School, Orillia

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