Unanswered Letters
August 29, 2017
Multiple times Cindy Scott,
a member of the Remember Every Name group has sent the following letter to the Premier, Kathleen Wynne, with no answers to this date.
Attempt 1 - July 25, 2015
Attempt 2 - August 29, 2017
Today I would like to talk about Remember Every Name and the g
raveyard at the old Huronia
Regional Centre in Orillia. I lived there when I was young.
There's people who live in Orillia and other places I think people that have lost their loved ones
are going to try to find them and they need to see them in the proper names. It would be nice if
people who know something would come forward. People of the staff need to come forward.
We have been trying to work with the government and we thought everyone was trying to do
something right for these people who died. I really want to find a way to get this graveyard done
properly: names and the bodies should be where they belong. I want names and deaths and so
we can bring flowers and so everybody can know we have not forgotten about these people.
Why has nobody talked about i
t or told us what really happened to the missing gravestones
(numbers)? I think people don't want the truth they just want to make excuses. There's gonna be
a lot of people questioning, well why didn't you do this a long time ago? Why would it be allowed
to put pipes through a graveyard? Just because it happened a long time ago doesn't make it ok.
Jerry is an expert and we need someone who really knows what they are doing to help us. He is a
good expert. Remember Every Name needs Jerry and the help of experts who knows exactly
where to look through. I don't know why did they tell us to go ahead and do the fence without
permission to do the gravestones. I can not trust the company (Timmins Martelle) who was
working with the government because they don't speak the truth. Update, August 2017: Jerry
Passed away suddenly in March 2017, his pro bono offer to help investigate was refused,
correspondence between Jerry Melbye and MCSS, 2016
.
It's just upsetting me and other people for their loved ones because its really awful to have no
names and it's just a number. This will be fixed because that is just the right thing to do. Update,
August 2017: MCSS has now rescinded the commitment to put names and dates of birth and
death on the burials that have
death on the burials that have numbered stones numbered stones remaining. And this is what should be done at Lakeshore Psych Lakeshore Psychiatric Cemetery too (in Toronto at Evans and Horner). What I am upset about
now is the whole area where there is nothing: just blank, no names, nothing. That makes me
mad, sad, upsetting, shaking my head. Why is this? Why people don't care about people who
were labelled, to just dump them? It makes me wonder WHY?
Just when we thought it could not get any worse, we have now figured out that there are pipes
there? Two pipes? Sewage pipes? The water from 65 years could have washed through the dirt
and moved where people are supposed to be. We want to figure out how they got the pipes in
the ground? We need to figure this out? Did they move people? We have the maps but they got
really mixed up and the maps could be wrong. We still don't have the answers yet that we need.
I have a right to know exactly what happened. I want to know and why. There has got to be a
reason. I think the reason is that they just don't care. All the way around it feels like something is
not right. I have a bad feeling that something is not right. I know for a fact that something is not
right.
I'm hoping that Jerry will find out what the real story is. What's the truth coming out? The truth is
going to come out sooner or later and people need to find out.
Every survivor has a right to know
about the graveyard. People all around the world need to
listen to our stories: all us the survivors, listen to us. We know what we are talking about. We
survived.
We want to invite you, Kathleen and anybody else, to come to the graveyard and tell us what
you
think about it and what you think should be done? I look forward to hearing from you.
Cindy Scott,
Orillia,
with
Remember Every Name