Sandy R. Barron

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Sandy R. Barron
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Historian.

Sandy R. Barron is a Master’s candidate in the History Department at the University of Calgary. His research interests include the social history of deafness in Canada, the accommodation of deaf defendants in eighteenth-century British courts, and philanthropy in Victorian Canada. Before undertaking graduate studies, he was employed in remedial education for seven years in Calgary.

His articles for the Manitoba Historical Society:

“An Excuse for Being So Bold:” D. W. McDermid and the Early Development of the Manitoba School for the Deaf, 1888-1900
Manitoba History, Number 78, Winter 2015

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