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Mothers of invention : essays on the Community of Jesus and Grenville Christian College / Ewan Whyte.
Van Pelt Library HV6626.54.C2 W49 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whyte, Ewan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Whyte, Ewan--Childhood and youth.
- Whyte, Ewan.
- Grenville Christian College--History.
- Grenville Christian College.
- Community of Jesus (Orleans, Mass.)--History.
- Community of Jesus (Orleans, Mass.).
- Christian college students--Abuse of--Ontario--Maitland--History.
- Christian college students.
- Christian universities and colleges--Ontario--Maitland--History.
- Christian universities and colleges.
- Boarding schools.
- Child abuse.
- Childhood and youth of a person.
- Preparatory schools.
- Students--Crimes against.
- Ontario.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- 167 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- illustration
- Place of Publication:
- Hamilton, ON : Wolsak & Wynn Publishers, [2025]
- Summary:
- ""On Nov. 16, 2023, the sixteen-year class-action lawsuit against Grenville Christian College came to a close. As a former student of Grenville, with a forced childhood in its close affiliate, the Community of Jesus, I could hardly believe it." Though the school closed in 2007, it was only in 2019 that the lawsuit of roughly 1,350 students finally went to trial. On Feb. 23, 2020, Justice Janet Leiper issued her decision concluding that "the evidence of maltreatment and the varieties of abuse perpetrated on students' bodies and minds in the name of the COJ [Community of Jesus] values of submission and obedience was class-wide and decades-wide." In these meticulously documented, yet personal, essays Ewan Whyte examines the extraordinary history of Grenville and of the Community of Jesus, the charismatic Massachusetts-based "church" with close financial and spiritual ties to Grenville and his own experiences within the school. Drawing on extensive research, he details the experience of members including Rockefeller heiress Isabel Lincoln Elmer, Christian nationalist authors David Manuel and Peter Marshall Jr., American serviceman Aaron Bushnell and others. In Mothers of Invention, Whyte has composed a shocking work that seeks to honour the suffering of the children."-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781998408238
- 199840823X
- OCLC:
- 1492568808
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