"Lovely Babies For Adoption" is what the advertisement for the Ideal Maternity
             Home and Sanitarium versed to many couples unable to bear children beginning in the
             late 1920's. Although the ad held true as to the children, the operation of this business
             was far from lovely. Originally designed as a sanitarium for the sick, the hospital soon
             became a birthing facility. Operating without any supervision, the facility was a place of
             joy for couples adopting an infant, but a place of shame and despair for unwed mothers.
             Lila Gladys Coolen met and married William Peach Young in 1925. William was
             an unordained seventh-day Adventist minister and Lila, also of the same faith, was a
             teacher in Fox Point, Nova Scotia. After being married, the couple left Nova Scotia to
             return to school in Chicago. William attended the National College of Chiropractic,
             while Lila pursued a degree at the National School of Obstetrics and Midwifery. In
             February of 1928, the Youngs opened The Life and Health Sanitarium out of their four
             bedroom cottage. Lila began delivering babies and within a year, the facility had been
             renamed The Ideal Maternity Home and Sanitarium and it's sole purpose became a
             birthing facility and adoption center for unwed mothers.
             During this time, Canadian and US laws were similar in banning the use of birth
             control or the performance of abortions. This left many women banished and shamed
             from their homes and communities because of illegitiment pregnancies. With the
             creation of this facility, many unwed mothers saw an opportunity to keep their secret
             from society. A newspaper advertisement placed by the Youngs, was carefully written
             and geared to lure women in. It read:
             "Dame gossip has sent many young lives to perdition after ruining them socially,
             that might have been BRIGHT STARS in society and a POWER in the world of
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