On a brisk spring day in 1965, Annie Michael stepped onto an airplane for the first time.
The 10-year-old had tested positive for tuberculosis, the airborne disease that had ravaged her hometown of Niaqunngut, a remote Baffin Island community southeast of Iqaluit. Her southbound flight was the first leg of a days-long journey to the Queen Mary Hospital for Tuberculous Children in Toronto.
While Michael’s stay at the hospital was meant to cure her potentially deadly condition, the experience left damage of another kind.
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