Her Name Was Margaret - Davy, Denise
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At age 18, Margaret Jacobson was admitted to the Ontario Hospital. Years later, she died homeless and alone in the city. With meticulous research and deep compassion Davy has pieced together Margaret's story - from promising student to patient, to homeless woman, to an unmarked grave - and asks us to look hard at the system that buried her there.

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At age 18, Margaret Jacobson was admitted to the Ontario Hospital. Years later, she died homeless and alone in the city. With meticulous research and deep compassion Davy has pieced together Margaret's story - from promising student to patient, to homeless woman, to an unmarked grave - and asks us to look hard at the system that buried her there.
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Denise Davy is a nationally recognized award-winning journalist who specializes in writing about mental health, homelessness and gender issues. She worked at the Hamilton Spectator for 26 years and was twice honoured with the Journalist of the Year award by the Ontario Newspaper Association and is a recipient of a National Newspaper Award, several Ontario Newspaper Association awards and two awards from the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario. In 1993, the Canadian Association of Journalists awarded her for co-founding the National Women in the Media conference. She is the recipient of four national journalism fellowships, which allowed her to investigate child prostitution in Thailand, poverty in India and the crisis in children's mental health services in Canada. She is founder of Purses for Margaret, which provides toiletries to homeless women. She lives in Burlington, ON.