AGQ-F0116
Fonds Patricia Fisher. – [198-?]-15 July 1994. – 1 cm of textual records and 1 photograph.
Biographical sketch:
Patricia Fisher (also Patricia Sarah Fisher, Georgia Patricia Fisher, or Patricia Georgia Sarah Fisher) was born in August 1932 in King County, Washington. She lived and worked in the United States until December 1962. She held many jobs there, including in the military and in hospital care.
After moving to Montreal in 1962, she gave up dancing, an art she particularly loved, in order to focus exclusively on nursing studies. She began studying nursing in French at the École des Infirmières Pratiques de Québec in 1965 and worked as a nurse until 1967.
Towards the end of the 1970s, she worked in security, notably at a private school. She then also worked nights for the police department responsible for the criminal investigation unit. She was hired by the department in 1983 and assigned to the youth protection division.
It was mainly in the 1980s that she made her mark as a trans activist. Patricia was involved with two organizations, FACT (Foundation for Advancement of Canadian Transsexuals/American and Canadian Federation of Transsexuals) and MMRF (Metamorphosis Medical Research Foundation), but mainly FACT. The latter was founded in January 1978 in Calgary. Overall, its mission was to inform and refer people experiencing dysphoria, educate the public about gender dysphoria, assist with research on the subject, provide peer support, network with other minority organizations, and cooperate with the government to help people experiencing gender dysphoria and minority groups. The MMRF was founded a little later in the early 1980s in Toronto and aimed, among other things, to support the research, development, and commercialization of a prosthetic penis device as an alternative to phalloplasty. Ms. Fisher was the founder of the Montreal branch of FACT and the organization’s representative in Quebec. She also worked with prisoners experiencing gender dysphoria.
The date and cause of her death are not known at this time.
Scope and content:
The fonds mainly documents Patricia Fisher’s activist life and her life in Canada. The biography also recounts her activities prior to her arrival here in the United States, but the other documents and photographs were produced or received in Montreal.
The fonds consists of one file:
AGQ-F0116/D1. Biographie de Patricia Fisher, carte d’affaires et correspondance
Notes:
Source of title proper: Title based on the contents of the fonds.
Immediate source of acquisition: The fonds was transferred to the AGQ in 1990 by the fonds’ creator (acquisition 1990-24).
Language: All documents were written in English.
Conservation: Patricia Fisher’s photograph was originally on the first page of the biography, but it was removed from the document for preservation reasons.
Associated material: The ArQuives in Toronto hold the bimonthly magazines of the MMRF (Metamorphosis Medical Research Foundation), Metamorphosis Magazine. It also includes FACT newsletters, Gender Review.
Related groups of records in different fonds external to the unit being described:
The AGQ has copies of the FACT Gender Review magazine in its possession.
The AGQ-F0013 AGQ Action-Integration Project fonds contains documents relating to FACT (AGQ-F0013/D26), including forms completed by Patricia Fisher.
Bibliography:
Irving, D. et Raj, R. (2014). Trans Activism in Canada: A Reader. Toronto: Canadian Scholars, 328 pages.
Metamorphosis Medical Research Foundation. (1987). Metamorphosis Magazine, 6(1-2). Retrieved from https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/downloads/zp38wc69f
Raj, R. et Clermont, N. (2016). Resources for Trans People, Gender Non-Conforming Youth, their Loved Ones & Helping Professionals. Retrieved from http://ccgsd-ccdgs.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/COVER-resources-for-trans-people-gender-non-conforming-youth-loved-ones-helping-professionals.pdf
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