March of Dimes Canada (MODC, officially the Rehabilitation Foundation for Disabled Persons, Canada) is a registered national charity established in 2005 by Ontario March of Dimes, to provide community-based rehabilitation services and resources across the country to people with physical disabilities. Ontario March of Dimes (officially Rehabilitation Foundation for the Disabled) is a Canadian charitable organization which provides services to people with physical disabilities, including people with post-polio syndrome. ...

March of Dimes in Canada has no affiliation with the American organization. Like its American counterpart, it began in 1951 with the Marching Mothers fundraising campaign to eradicate polio. March of Dimes official logo March of Dimes is the name of health charities in both the United States and Canada. ... Poliomyelitis (polio), or infantile paralysis, is a viral paralytic disease. ...

After vaccination programs effectively eliminated the threat of the disease, mandates changed to offering programs and services for people of all ages with physical disabilites, particulalry in Ontario. Two polio vaccines are used throughout the world to combat polio. ...

For many years various provincial organizations operated under the name March of Dimes as members of the Easter Seals March of Dimes National Council.

In 2005, however, Ontario March of Dimes acquired the exclusive right to use 'March of Dimes' in Canada, and now operates March of Dimes Canada as a national subsidiary. It no longer has any affiliation with Easter Seals Canada. Ontario March of Dimes (officially Rehabilitation Foundation for the Disabled) is a Canadian charitable organization which provides services to people with physical disabilities, including people with post-polio syndrome. ...

March of Dimes Canada continues to work with polio survivors through Polio Canada, a national support network for people suffering from post-polio syndrome, or the late effects of polio. Post-polio syndrome (PPS) is a condition that frequently affects survivors of poliomyelitis, a viral infection of the nervous system, after recovery from an initial paralytic attack of the virus. ...

It is also attempting to establish Conductive Education programs across the country, which Ontario March of Dimes imported to Canada from Europe in the 1990s.

External links

• March of Dimes Canada website
• Ontario March of Dimes website
• Polio Canada website
• March of Dimes website