Montreal Institute for the Deaf and Mute

[1] The Montreal Institute for the Deaf was founded as L'Institut catholique des Sourds-Muets[2] (The Catholic School for Deaf Boys) in 1848[3] in Faubourg, Quebec, a neighbourhood in the northeastern corner of Montreal.

[4] In 1850, the Institute moved to the Mile End area, at the corner of Boulevard St-Joseph and Rue Saint Dominique in Montreal.

[4][5] By 1887,[6] workshops for teaching the trades such as bookbinding, shoemaking and printing had been built within the school.

[12] In 2012, 60 former students of the Institute filed a class action suit claiming they were sexually abused by priests in the school.

[15] This led to a settlement in 2016 of $30 million from the Clerics of St Viator and the Raymond Dewar Institute.