This is one of the darkest pages in the histories of Canada and the Roman Catholic Church. Welcome to St. Michael's Laundry, a world of systemic physical and mental abuse, torture, sexual abuse by priests and nuns, where children work shoulder-to-shoulder with criminals and the criminally insane in deplorable conditions behind locked doors.
But it is also a story of innocence and undying human spirit.
- Ross Kentner, Director Radio CFOS Owen Sound On. Canada
Delcina's Tears is a remarkable story by a remarkable woman.
Georgina Williams tells it as it was without any trace of self-pity despite her many years of suffering. Her courage is a testament to how the human spirit can survive desolation, hopelessness, and humiliation.
- Robert F. Gray, Late Editor World News London UK., to the
Canada Council for the Arts
Georgina Williams, lives in the Northern Canadian forest on a remote lake with her artist husband Kacy J.M. Bowman. She was born in a Canadian Reformatory for Women. Her mother, Delcina, was a thirteen-year-old rape victim. Never treated medically or psychologically for the trauma of this rape she remained in a state of shock until her death. Both Georgina and Delcina were treated as criminals and used as slave labour for a total of twenty-five years in the commercial laundry operated by a religious order of catholic nuns who acted as jailers. Georgina was permanently injured by the physical and mental abuse that was used to enforce the child slave labour activities. She is a lover of books, bones, feathers, marbles, rocks, beads, cribbage and chess. She has a studio where she designs and creates Indian crafts using natural materials she gathers. She is interested in herbs, natural healing and all forms of music and art.