Christine Johnston – Dr Joseph Workman: father of Canadian Psychiatry and a founding father of Canadian Unitarianism.
A true story told by Christine Johnston of a fascinating doctor from Northern Ireland who helped to create the face of Eastern Canada in the mid-19th century. In the process he helped develop public schooling, public health, asylums and occupational therapy.
Christine, a member of the First Unitarian Church of Victoria since 1997, was for 28 years the official historian of First Unitarian Congregation of Toronto.
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