http://www.dominionpaper.ca/taxonomy/term/3708/0 en http://www.dominionpaper.ca/images/4528 <a href="/images/4528"><img src="http://www.dominionpaper.ca/files/dominion-img/VelmaandFamily.thumbnail.jpg" alt="Velma and Family" title="Velma and Family" class="image image-thumbnail " width="250" height="167" /></a><p>Velma Demerson (right) and her family, in an undated photo. In 1939, Demerson was incarcerated in Ontario for wanting to pursue a mixed-race relationship with a Chinese-Canadian. Her experience in prison is eerily similar to the treatment of Ashley Smith, whose guards watched her commit suicide in an Ontario prison more than six decades later.</p> http://www.dominionpaper.ca/images/4528#comments Wilfrid Laurier Press Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:53:23 +0000 Tim McSorley 4528 at http://www.dominionpaper.ca