Beryl Potter was involved in many disability rights organizations in Ontario including the Trans-Action Coalition, the Scarborough Recreation Club for Disabled Adults, the Ontario Action Awareness Association, and the Coalition on Employment Equity for Persons with Disabilities.
18 Facts About Beryl Potter
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Beryl Potter helped to organize a volunteer service of converted, wheelchair accessible vans to provide door-to-door transit for disabled persons.
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Beryl Potter later lobbied for the Toronto Transit Commission to take over the program with appropriate funding, trained drivers, and dedicated vehicles.
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Beryl Potter stepped down as chairperson of the Trans-Action Coalition in 1989.
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Beryl Potter formed the Scarborough Recreation Club for Disabled Adults in 1976.
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Beryl Potter was a co-founder of the Coalition on Employment Equity for Persons with Disabilities.
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Beryl Potter was the founder of the Ontario Action Awareness Association, an association referred to as Action Awareness.
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Beryl Potter was forcibly removed from the gallery of the House of Commons after a verbal outcry against claims made by Flora MacDonald.
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In 1985, Beryl Potter was approached to run in the provincial election in Ontario.
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Beryl Potter declined due to commitments to her involvement with Action Awareness.
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In 1990, Beryl Potter ran as the liberal candidate in Beaches-Woodbine to be a Member of the Provincial Parliament of Ontario.
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Beryl Potter was born in Liverpool, but lived most of her life in the Toronto district of Scarborough, after moving there in 1954.
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Beryl Potter had three children with husband Victor Carter: Dianne Juda, Victor Carter Sr.
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Beryl Potter had both legs and one arm amputated after complications due to blood clots from a fall while working at the bakery and subsequent phlebitis due to a car accident.
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Beryl Potter became blind in one eye as a result of doctors using iodine, which Beryl Potter was allergic to, to treat an infection.
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Beryl Potter was made a member of the Order of Ontario in 1988 for her work as a disability rights activist.
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In 1994, Beryl Potter was inducted into the Terry Fox Hall of Fame alongside Arnold Boldt, Rev Robert Rumball, and William Cameron.
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Beryl Potter was made a member of the Order of Canada in 1996.