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Group Home was tried and failed
My brother, Peter Snow, has been in Huronia Regional Centre for 47 years. He is very happy there and has certainly
been well cared for. At sixty-nine years of age he would be lost without his caregivers and fellow clients who have
become his friends. HRC is home to Peter!
Several years ago he was moved to a group home in Parry Sound. Peter was born and raised in that town. I often
visited him and each time he would beg me to “make them send me home to Orillia.” When I mentioned this to the staff
they said I was being pessimistic. To give their efforts a chance to work, I did not interfere further. One night at ten o’
clock I got a phone call from the group home saying Peter was in a police cruiser heading for Penetang–no particulars!
He had to stay there for several days before he was readmitted to HRC. Needless to say, I was very concerned and still
am when I hear of HRC closing!
Peter, the youngest and only boy of a family of five children, is now left with only myself as guardian. I am in my eighty-
third year and don’t visit him as often as I used to but my son, Rob, and his wife, Sharon, fill in for me. I hope and pray
that Huronia Regional Centre will be Peter’s home for the remainder of his life. I have nothing but praise and thanks for
his care during all these years. Along with numerous relatives of clients, I am, every day, thinking positively for the
continuation of Huronia Regional Centre.
His sister, Lorna Donald
Port Carling
