Miss Margaret MacLaurin Taught Deaf Students in Sign Language and Lived at the MacKay Institute for Deaf

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This link brings you to the Mackay School's author http://archive.org/stream/gu_deafdumbblind00widd/gu_deafdumbblind00widd_djvu.txt



A Compilation by

THOMAS WIDD,

Principal of the Mackay Institution for Protestant Deaf-mutes, Montreal.


He opens with this quote.

TO THE READER

"Having suffered from the most intense deafness for
more than thirty-five years, and labored as a teacher
and missionary to the deaf and dumb for twenty years,
the Compiler of this little work is, in consequence,
thoroughly acquainted with the requirements of this
afflicted class. He would urge all who possess any
influence, however small, with our Legislators, to use
that influence to obtain for the deaf-mute, , in the
name of humanity and justice, the same facilities for
education and spiritual instruction, as are enjoyed by persons
who can hear and speak. He wants justice, not charity."