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About Velma Demerson
- Velma Demerson (September 4, 1920 – May 13, 2019) was a Canadian woman who was imprisoned in 1939 in the province of Ontario for being in a relationship with a Chinese immigrant.
- She won an apology and compensation from the government when she was in her eighties, wrote a book about her experiences, and spent the latter part of her life campaigning for an apology and restitution for all women who had been incarcerated under the law that imprisoned her.
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