Tranquility Lost : The Occupation of Tranquille and Battle for Community Care in BC Product Form:Paperback / softback POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties

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Tranquility Lost : The Occupation of Tranquille and Battle for Community Care in BC Product Form:Paperback / softback POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political ProcessDescription In 1983, the BC provincial government announced plans to close Tranquille, a large residential institution for persons with intellectual disabilities located outside Kamloops. The announcement was made with no community placement plans for residents. The nearly six hundred employees of Tranquille, members of the BC Government Employees Union and the Union of Psychiatric Nurses, were alarmed by the lack of any Ministry of Human Resources