Annex Ratepayers Association: Trent Brady

Trent Brady: Feeling hurt and betrayed by her birth country, in 1967 she headed to Canada, along with her husband, Trent Brady. The couple renounced U.S. citizenship, becoming Canadians in the early 1980s, according to Globe and Mail. She helped to found Torontos Karma Food Co-op to provide for the needy. She compiled the bibliography of an important Canadian writer. She was, in the words of her daughter Susannah, a firecracker and Social activist Judith Brady wasnt afraid to defy the United States. After she returned to home soil from a forbidden trip, the U.S. State Department confiscated her passport. It took a year of battle, and the expense of a lawyer, before the essential document was finally returned. In Toronto, Judith Brady turned her activism toward the founding of the Annex Ratepayers Association. The group, one of many, effectively rallied against building the Spadina Expressway, a highway proposed in the mid-1960s that would have sliced the city in two from north to south. The protests resulted in the project being cancelled in 1971, with only the Allen Expressway, extending from Highway 401 south to Eglinton Avenue, having been built. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.