Tuesday, 4 February 2014

Ontario's Dark Reformatory Past

I just watched the following video, aired on TVO last evening. It is the story of what transpired to a friend of mine, Velma Demerson, when she fell in love with a Chinese Canadian man and became pregnant with his child in the 1930's. Her book, "Incorrigible" recounts the entire case.
http://ww3.tvo.org/video/196669/constance-backhouse-ontarios-dark-reformatory-past




Velma Demerson and I at her birthday party in Toronto.



Velma Demerson and her book, "Incorrigible".

A great mathematician




 Sometimes a brilliant mathematician can get clouded by the numbers and forget what s(he) started out calculating in the first place!