Inclusion Canada

The organization was founded as the "Canadian Association for Retarded Children".{{cite book|author=Melanie Panitch|title=Disability, Mothers, and Organization: Accidental Activists|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V5_5lo2_7T4C&pg=PA4|date=6 August 2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-90378-7|page=4}} In 1969, the name was changed, to "Canadian Association for the Mentally Retarded". The current name was adopted in 1985.{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.cacl.ca/about-us/history|publisher=CACL}}

In 1963, the organization established the "Canadian John F. Kennedy Memorial Fund for Retarded Children".{{cite news|title=Propose Fund As Kennedy Memorial|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=396&dat=19631204&id=KGovAAAAIBAJ&pg=3457,618018|access-date=20 September 2014|work=Granby Leader-Mail|page=2|date=Dec 4, 1963}} The money raised went to the organization and was used to fund research.{{cite news|title=Rose Kennedy Here: Appeals For Retarded Children|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19640930&id=e50tAAAAIBAJ&pg=6928,6580051|access-date=20 September 2014|work=The Montreal Gazette|page=14|date=Sep 30, 1964}}

A "Canadian Retarded Children's Week" was also established in 1964 for fundraising, to run from May 6 to 16. The theme was "Flowers of Hope".{{cite news|title='Week' Opens On Island|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19640507&id=CZ4tAAAAIBAJ&pg=6562,1316965|access-date=20 September 2014|work=The Montreal Gazette|page=1|date=May 7, 1964}} Cosmos seeds were mailed out as a part of fundraising efforts.{{cite news|title=Seeds Sold To Aid Retarded|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19670425&id=S-4tAAAAIBAJ&pg=3784,5962294|access-date=20 September 2014|work=The Montreal Gazette|page=25|date=Apr 25, 1967}}

The organization was a proponent of Deinstitutionalisation.{{cite news|title=Personal Homes For Retarded|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19680918&id=kroyAAAAIBAJ&pg=2495,651698|access-date=20 September 2014|work=Ottawa Citizen|page=40|date=Sep 18, 1968}}

There are branches and subbranches in all Canadian provinces. In 1972, "L'institut National Canadien Francis" merged with the organization to provide French-language services.{{cite news|title=Two organizations unite : TV programs on retarded set|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19721005&id=rBMyAAAAIBAJ&pg=3279,945545|access-date=20 September 2014|work=The Montreal Gazette|page=18|date=Oct 5, 1972}}

During the 1970s NBCAMR operated sheltered workshops in Lindsay, New Brunswick,{{cite news|title=Untitled (photo page)|work=The Bugle|date=Apr 26, 1978|location=Woodstock, New Brunswick|page=B3}} and other small communities. They were later closed when the organizations goals shifted.

The organization was involved in the Infant K case in 1985,{{cite news|last1=Hubert|first1=Nadine|title=Sterilization and the mentally retarded|url=http://www.theinterim.com/issues/bioethics/sterilization-and-the-mentally-retarded/|access-date=19 September 2014|work=The Interim|date=August 14, 1985}} the Eve case,{{cite journal|title=Sterilization of the Mentally Retarded Adult: the Eve Case|journal=McGill Law Journal|date=Jan 9, 1981|volume=26|page=931, fn 1|url=http://lawjournal.mcgill.ca/userfiles/other/3915287-26.04.bernard.pdf|access-date=19 September 2014}}{{cite news|title=Sterilization Case First Court Test Of Equality Rights|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19850603&id=u0w0AAAAIBAJ&pg=1569,1256947|access-date=20 September 2014|work=Ottawa Citizen|page=A3|date=Jun 3, 1985}} and others involving involuntary contraceptive sterilization.

The organization rebranded from the "Canadian Association for Community Living" to Inclusion Canada on September 14, 2020.{{Cite web|title=Inclusion Canada Rebrand|url=https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Inclusion-Canada-Rebrand.html?soid=1122821539728&aid=NgzJypNSD4E|access-date=2020-09-16|website=Inclusion Canada}}

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the organization received a $416,883 grant from the Public Health Agency of Canada's Immunization Partnership Fund to increase uptake of COVID-19 vaccines among people with intellectual disabilities and their families.{{Cite web |last=Public Health Agency of Canada |date=2022-10-12 |title=Immunization Partnership Fund |url=https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/immunization-vaccine-priorities/immunization-partnership-fund.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221104154209/https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/immunization-vaccine-priorities/immunization-partnership-fund.html |archive-date=2022-11-04 |access-date=2022-11-04 |website=Government of Canada}}

• Community Living Ontario
• R. v. Swain
• Sheltered workshop

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; Citations – journals

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• {{cite journal|last1=Dunn|first1=H. G.|title=The Canadian Association for Retarded Children|journal=Can Med Assoc J|date=Oct 15, 1958|volume=79|issue=8|pages=661–664|pmc=1830226|pmid=13585292}}
• {{cite journal|last1=Clute|first1=KF|title=Research Programme of the Canadian Association for Retarded Children|journal=Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal|date=Oct 1963|volume=8|issue=5|pages=278–80|doi=10.1177/070674376300800502|pmid=14055396|s2cid=43399126}}
• {{cite journal|last1=Roeher|first1=GA|last2=Webber|first2=I|title=Canadian Association for the Mentally Retarded.|journal=Canadian Journal of Public Health|date=Mar–Apr 1971|volume=62|issue=2|pages=153–5|pmid=5572713}}

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; Others

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• {{cite web|title=Hope for the Mentally Retarded|url=http://www.rbc.com/aboutus/letter/october1969.html|work= Royal Bank of Canada Monthly Letter|publisher=RBC|access-date=19 September 2014|date=October 1969|at=VOL. 50, No. 10}}
• {{cite news|title=Struggle for a voice|url=http://www.nationalpost.com/Struggle+voice/1302491/story.html|work=National Post|date=Feb 18, 2009|access-date=19 September 2014}}
• {{cite book|last1=Ziai|first1=Abol H.|title=Second Nova Scotia Camp for Retarded Children|date=1963|publisher=Canadian Association for Retarded Children|location=Camp Monte Bello, Tusket, Yarmouth County|pages=40|no-pp=yes}}

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• {{Official website|https://inclusioncanada.ca}}

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Category:Organizations established in 1958

Category:Disability organizations based in Canada

Category:Organizations based in Ontario

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