Documentation includes correspondence and background materials about Parkinson's disease and struggle for home care, correspondence from friends and supporters, papers relating to publishing projects, as well as clippings about Hertz and his cause. Artifacts include items adapted for Hertz's condit…
Documentation includes correspondence and background materials about Parkinson's disease and struggle for home care, correspondence from friends and supporters, papers relating to publishing projects, as well as clippings about Hertz and his cause. Artifacts include items adapted for Hertz's condition. Also cassette tapes of interviews, fundraising video. There are several artifacts and six photos.
Fonds No.
P0088
History Biographical
Born in 1945, Ken Hertz was a poet, author and publisher in Montreal. Afflicted with Parkinson's disease, Hertz and his supporters spent the last ten years of his life fighting for home care under the Quebec medicare system. He died in 1996.
Notes
P96/10.Box of CJC-ZB collection documentation - mainly clippings, also correspondence and poems. See also books of poetry in Library collection.