1983
The first survey designed to gather National data on the prevalence of disability, called the Canadian Health and Disability Survey (CHDS), was sent out to Canadians.1
1. Mark Leier, “Bearing the Marks of Capital: Solidarities and Fractures in E.T. Kingsley’s British Columbia,” in Disabling Barriers: Social Movements, Disability History, and the Law eds. Ravi Malhotra and Benjamin Isitt (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017), 16.