Separate Beds A History of Indian Hospitals in Canada
Join us for an special conversation with Dr. Maureen Lux in honour of National Indigenous History Month.
Type of Event:
CAMH in the Community
Date:
June 03, 2025
Time:
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Location:
Bell Gateway Building Sacred Space
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100 Stokes St. 2nd floor
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Toronto
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ON
Event Overview
As we kick off National Indigenous History Month, please join us for a special presentation by researcher, professor, and author Dr. Maureen Lux “Separate Beds, A History of Indian Hospitals in Canada, 1920-80’s”.
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Maureen Lux is Professor of the History at Brock University. Her research explores the impact of colonization on the health of Indigenous peoples and the role of medicine and the state in maintaining health disparities. Her books, Medicine that Walks: Disease, Medicine and Canadian Plains Native People 1880-1940 and Separate Beds: A History of Indian Hospitals in Canada are widely studied and have won multiple national awards from the Canadian Historical Association and the Royal Society of Canada.
Professor Lux will discuss racially segregated hospital care and the history of the so-called “Indian Hospitals” in the context of the mid-twentieth-century construction of Medicare. Canadians have recently begun a serious dialogue about the destructive role of Residential Schools in our shared history. Like the schools, Indian Hospitals are nodes in the broader web of policies and relations that sought to undermine and isolate First Nations and Inuit communities in the interests of non-Indigenous Canada.”
The event will be hosted by Dr. David Gratzer, psychiatrist and co-chief of the General Adult Psychiatry and Health Systems Division at CAMH, which oversees the clinical and academic work of more than 110 psychiatrists.
Presubmit a question to reconciliation@camh.ca by May 27, 2025 for a chance to win a FREE copy of the book!
No registration required for in-person attendance. For virtual attendance and meeting link, please register online.