The<unk>  (French: les Orphelins de<unk>  were the victims of a scheme in which several thousand<unk> d children were falsely certified as mentally ill by the government of the province of Quebec, Canada and confined to psychiatric institutions. 
<unk> ges and schools were the financial responsibility of the provincial government but funding for mental institutions was also provided by the government of Canada. Beginning in the 1940s and continuing into the 1960s, Quebec Premier Maurice<unk>  in cooperation with the Roman Catholic Church which ran the<unk> ges, developed a scheme to obtain Federal funding for thousands of children, most of whom had been<unk> d through their abandonment by an unwed mother. In some cases the Catholic<unk> ges were relabelled as health-care facilities and in other cases the children were shipped from<unk> ges to existing insane asylums. Years later, long after these institutions were closed, the children who had survived them and become adults began to speak out about the harsh treatment and sexual abuse they were forced to endure at the hands of the psychiatrists, Roman Catholic Church priests, nuns, and administrators. Reminiscent of the abuses by the Catholic-run Magdalen Asylums, members of the<unk>  claim that they were used as slave labor and subjected to medical experimentation and extreme physical abuse for misbehaviour.
Duplessis Orphans
Diltor Opromolla
Pennyroyal
Symphoricarpos
Cutaneos Horn
Angor animi
Pinguecula
Albrecht Kossel