He earned his PhD in History in 1997 at the University of Toronto. His doctoral dissertation was published in 2000 as "Remembrance of Patients Past: Patient Life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane, 1870-1940" by Oxford University Press and was republished in 2009 and 2010 by University of Toronto Press. Research from this study has been made into a play, "Angels of 999", which was staged by psychiatric survivors from 1998 to 2000. Since 2000, Reaume has given more than 125 wall tours of the 19th-century patient-built boundary walls, which currently stand at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. He is also a co-founder of the Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto.