Blair Earl Ross

RR#3

Morell, PEI    C0A 1S0

                                             

  (902) 961-3289

 

                

April 7, 2003

 

Queen Elizabeth II

Her Majesty The Queen

Buckingham Palace

London, SW1A 1AA

United Kingdom

 

Your Majesty,

 

This registered letter is written to you in order that you may become aware of the current situation in regards to the children who were living at the Mt. Herbert Orphanage, governed by provincial legislation, in Prince Edward Island, Canada beginning in the year 1921.

 

You were involved in the Mt. Herbert Orphanage, during your promotional tour in 1960's.  Your visit was during the time when the name of the Orphanage was changed, through legislation, to “Prince Edward Island Protestant Children’s Home”.  Two(2) years after the Orphanage was closed in 1975, through legislation, the name was changed again to “Prince Edward Island Protestant Children’s Trust”. 

 

There is current litigation filed in the PEI Supreme Court with 58 plaintiff’s, who all have a common legal representative.  There are allegations of human rights violations and deaths.  Access to legal representation has been denied to myself and to others who lived at the home.  This denial of access to proper legal representation allows the continuance of the trauma I experienced while living in an orphanage in Canada, while my mother worked there and while money was deducted from her provincial cheque to pay for torture instead of protection.  My family members, myself, other orphans and their families, have suffered enough. 

 

In 1902 the Grand Orange Lodge of the Freemasons originated the PEI Protestant Orphanage (Mount Herbert) and the deed was for 130 acres of land including a farmhouse.  Since 1921, the trust, a federally registered charity, has control of a vast amount of income and property.  The trust had the duty to care for each child living at the orphanage: emotionally, physically, sexually, socially and spiritually, as well as a duty to ensure that they were educated and cared for when they stopped living at the orphanage. 

 

A few of the children who lived at the Mt. Herbert Orphanage were selected to receive some benefit from the income of the orphanage.  All of the children were traumatized; emotionally, physically, sexually, socially and spiritually, some children more severely than others.

 

                                                                                                                                               

Blair Ross to Queen Elizabeth II, dated April 7 , 2003, page 2

 

The very people who had a duty to ensure that the children were looked after and cared for are the same people who are in control of the political patronage system legislated by federal and provincial law that was enacted to protect the children in the first place. Whether they were federal, provincial or municipal officials or representatives or community representatives, they will be a party in future litigation, for the misappropriation of funds, perpetrating intentional acts of abuse and torture and then denying corrective actions the children needed to ensure their life, liberty and their security of person.  This persecution was legitimized by the Prince Edward Island legislated assembly since 1921.

 

There is still no protection in place for the unethical distribution of the funds, held in trust, for the children that now, as well as in the past, were in need of corrective actions, education, support, counselling and therapy for themselves, family and foster family members, and other associates effected.  All in need of proper legal representation.  Restitution for these crimes against humanity could bring some closure.

 

A PEI Supreme Court Justice, Gordon Campbell, has ruled that all money is to be returned to the trust.  For justice to be served this money must include the buying, selling, renting and demolishing of the building, sale of property, donations public, private and government, countries, utilities and all other donators since 1921, excluding any legitimate claim of expenditures for the care of those living and working at the orphanage.  

 

The Laws that were enacted since 1921 in regards to the Mt. Herbert Orphanage in Prince Edward Island, Canada, have never been enforced.  The Trust was authorized to actively manage the affairs of the orphanage and the children who were legislated to live there.  The children’s money was embezzled from the children by the direct people responsible for their care.

 

The Trust had the right to acquire by lease or purchase any real or personal property they may require for the use of the Corporation and the purposes of the Orphanage, and to accept and hold any real or personal property that has heretofore been or hereafter may be gratuitously given, granted or bequeathed for the use of the Orphanage. 

 

The Trust had the right to engage in farming, dairy work, stock raising or any industry, trade or business that may be deemed expedient in the interest of the Orphanage or that may provide OCCUPATION FOR ITS INMATES

 

The Trust was constituted a body corporate by An Act to Incorporate the PEI Protestant Orphanage, 11 Geo. V, Ch. 27, 1921

 

            ALL FUNDS OR PROPERTY RAISED, COLLECTED OR RECEIVED

                BY AN PERSON OR SOCIETY FOR OR ON BEHALF OF THE ORPHANAGE

                OR FOR OR ON BEHALF OF ANY SCHEME CONNECTED THEREWITH

                SHALL BE PAID, HANDED OVER AND TRANSFERRED TO THE

                CORPORATION WHICH SHALL BE SOLELY ENTITLED TO THE CUSTODY

THEREOF AND SHALL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE THEREFORE AND FOR

                THE DUE APPLICATION THEREOF.