Welcome to Polio Quebec

Many Tool Box sessions (for people with chronicle diseases) will take place in Fall 2010, in Montreal.

To know more about those workshop, visit our section Activities.

The Polio crusade (53:24) is a documentary broadcasted on PBS-American Experience in April 2010. It is about the epidemic and the research of a vaccine in USA. Click here.

To know more, visit our page :
others resources about polio (websites, documentary,..)
in the section Resources.

MAP :
THE DISABLED PARKING SPOTS

The Association des Paraplégiques du Québec (APQ) made a map identifying, in Montreal, the location of the handicapped parking spaces for people with a disabled parking permit.

Consult this map
of disabled parking spots.

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Last updated : July 26^th, 2010
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Polio Quebec celebrates its 25^th anniversary!

When she noticed that, with the emergence of the post-polio syndrome, people needed to gather across North-America, Mrs Sieglinde Stieda began to collect information and contact people who wanted to have an association in Quebec. She organised the first meeting of what was going to become the Polio Quebec Association. It was in 1985.

Afterwards, it is due to the spirit and efforts to many people (voluntary, members and medical advisors) that Polio Quebec could help and give information, encourage and support research, give the opportunity to get together, and finally become what it is today.

Thank you for your support!

We will celebrate together our Silver Anniversary during our next Annual General Meeting (AGM)
When? :	Sunday, October 10^th (10/10/10) (Thanksgiving week-end)
Where? :	In Montreal, at the Plaza Antique (www.buffetantique.com) (6086 Sherbrooke E street)
Schedule? :	The AGM will be in the afternoon. The celebration will be in the evening.
We hope to meet you there!

We invite you to come back regularly on our website in order to benefit
from the new details and advices which we will not miss to add. We also invite you to give us your suggestions and favourite places you discovered!

POLIO QUEBEC VISITS QUEBEC !

On Friday June 11^th, Polio Quebec will be in Quebec (city) to visits its members and other people who had polio in that area. The objective of the meeting will be to take contact with our members around Quebec and talk about their needs, and to inform them about rights for people with disbilities and available resources.

Thanks to the Carrefour des personnes handicapées from Quebec for their collaboration.

POLIO QUEBEC : "OPEN HOUSE" AT THE NEURO

On April 23^th and May 28^th, some of Polio Quebec's boardmembers and others voluntary members went to the Post-Polio Clinic to meet and discuss with the patients while they were waiting to see Dr Trojan or Dr Diorio. The objectives were to promote the association, to meet members and new people concerned by polio from all around the province and to inform them.

Those two days were successful! We met interesting people, talked about their experience and gave them informations.

Thanks to Mona Arsenault who organized those open house and to all the voluntary members who went.

ARTICLE ABOUT POLIO

Sunday May 16, 2010 - An article about polio and written by André Picard has been published by the Globe and Mail : " The WHO’s polio challenge: From inspiration to exhilaration ".

You can read this article online on the Globe and Mail's website.

Thanks to Sally Aitken, member of Polio Quebec, who shared this information with us.

MONTREAL SWIMMING POOLS' ACCESSIBILITY

Polio Quebec, in collaboration with the Post-Polio Clinic, is actually working on a interior swimming pools directory (in Quebec), with information about accessibility for people with physical disabilities.
To have a look on this directory, visit the section "Resources", and then "Recreation", and "Pools' accessibility (Montreal)" (in french). Many swimming pools in Montreal are already included there, and we invite you to give us information about the ones we don't have, all over the Quebec : associationpolioquebec@bellnet.ca!