Belanger, Alfred

ID
0207
Nationality
Canadian
Occupation
Educational administrator
Summary
Hearing. Director of the Institution Catholique des Sourds-Muets in Montreal, he was the only Canadian attending the 1880 Congress of Milan. Already inclined to oralism, he returned from Milan thoroughly convinced of oralism and implemented it in his school, physically separating the oral students from the "oral failures".
References
Deaf Heritage in Canada, p.11.
Dates
27 April 1835-5 June 1910