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Ruth Enns grew up in a farming village in Manitoba. As th middle child of a farm couple who raised primarily grain, she is well acquainted with Canadian rural prairie life.
She got hr B.A. and B. Ed. from the University of Manitoba and spent eight years teaching in rural schools. Shortly after her marriage in 1981, illness forced her out of the profession so she turned to freelance writing after studying Creative Communications at Red River Community College.
Ms. Enns acquired a sensitivity to th Canadian disability rights movement through her own experiences with disability resulting from polio and glaucoma. She was also briefly involved in the early development of the Manitoba League of the Physically Handicapped, now the Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities, although since the seventies she has not been involved with any of these organizations.
Since 1983 she and her husband have lived in rural Manitoba.
Books by Ruth Enns
A Voice Unheard
The Latimer Case and People with Disabilities
Ruth Enns
Tracy Latimer could not speak, however, her life was much more than Canadians have been led to believe and her voice has been overlooked in the debate over whether her father received justice. Tracy’s was not the only unheard voice. Disability is severely stigmatized in Canada. One of the manifestations of that stigma is the selective deafness of the able-bodied population on issues of vital importance to citizens with disabilities. A Voice Unheard shows the positive options for Canadians… (more information)