in 1950 a public health nurse arrived in her arctic village; kenojuak, having tested positive in a tuberculosis screening, was sent against her will to parc savard hospital in quebec city, where she stayed for over three years, from early 1952 to the summer of 1955. she had just given birth when she was forcibly transferred; the baby was adopted by a neighbouring family. several of kenojuak's children died while she confined in hospital.