The Montreal Institute for the Deaf and Mute was a boarding school operated by the Clercs de Saint-Viateur (English: Clerics of St Viator) between 1848 and 1983 in Montreal, Quebec. [1]
The Montreal Institute for the Deaf and Mute was a boarding school operated by the Clercs de Saint-Viateur (English: Clerics of St Viator) between 1848 and 1983 in Montreal, Quebec. [1]
The Montreal Institute for the Deaf was founded as L'Institut catholique des Sourds-Muets [2] (The Catholic School for Deaf Boys) in 1848 [3] in Faubourg, Quebec, a neighbourhood in the northeastern corner of Montreal. [4] In 1850, the Institute moved to the Mile End area, at the corner of Boulevard St-Joseph and Rue Saint Dominique in Montreal. [4] [5] By 1887, [6] workshops for teaching the trades such as bookbinding, shoemaking and printing had been built within the school. [5]
In the 1921, the Institute moved [7] to a new building at 7400 Boulevard Saint-Laurent [8] in Montreal. [9] The building is now listed as a heritage building by the City of Montreal. [10]
In 1983, the Institute ceased teaching at the 7400 Boulevard Saint-Laurent location. [11]
The following year, the Institut catholique des Sourds-Muets changed its name to L'Institut Raymond-Dewar (English: The Raymond Dewar Institute). [12]
In 2012, 60 former students of the Institute filed a class action suit claiming they were sexually abused by priests in the school. [13] The initial class action was joined by other former students, bringing the total number of plaintiffs claiming abuse to 150 students with claims of abuse ranging between 1942 and 1982. [14] The claims by former students were not legally contested by the Clerics of St Viator. [15] This led to a settlement in 2016 of $30 million from the Clerics of St Viator and the Raymond Dewar Institute. [14] [16] The settlement was the largest settlement ever awarded for a sexual abuse case in Quebec history. [14] [17] The settlement, authorized in the Superior Court of Quebec, provided for a payment of $20 million from the Canadian Clerics of St. Viator, and $10 million from the Raymond Dewar Institute, the name the school adopted in 1984. [18] [19] [20]
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