Being our own sponsors

Abstract

EnglishIncluded among six non- physicians were the president of Mount Allison University (whose university had been involved with occupational therapy in World War I), the president of the Quebec Society for Crippled Children (now the Quebec Society for Disabled Children), three prominent Canadian women with connections to occupational therapy, and the preeminent American occupational therapist Eleanor Clarke Slagle. Sponsorship from the elite medical community (and other individuals of high status) paved the way for many of the developments of early occupational therapy in Canada: the founding of provincial societies in the 1920s, the establishment of educational programs at the University of Toronto (first in 1918 and again in 1926), the formation of the CAOT in 1926, and the debut of this journal in 1933. The characteristics of the ward aides of World War I who had shown themselves to be so creative, and entrepreneurial, independent, and self-motivated, venturing into unknown territory at every turn, had somehow become masked. francaisEn 1933, lorsque cette revue a ete publiee pour la premiere fois, il ne semblait pas essentiel que les ergotherapeutes jouent un role de defenseur ou de revendication; l'ACE et la sororite externe assumaient la tache d'expliquer la profession aux medecins, aux membres des conseils d'administration des hopitaux et a la population.