Christine Nayler spent only four hours with her newborn daughter at a hospital north of Newmarket, Ont., in 1982, before her baby was taken away from her.
Then a 15-year-old expectant mother living in Toronto, Nayler was sent to a relative’s home north of the city to give birth. She was expected to return home without the child.
While she was being repeatedly told she couldn’t keep the baby, Nayler was still hopeful that her family would change their mind.
But they didn’t.
“I always say that the day that I left the hospital without her was my death day because I feel like I died that day,” said Nayler, who now lives in Barrie, Ont….