https://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/I/Incorrigible
http://section15.ca/features/people/2005/03/21/velma_demerson/
'At that time, Ontario government policy included the Female Refuges (not refugees) Act. It decreed that an 18-year-old woman could make decisions about her own life with one unbelievable exception. If a parent considered a daughter to be “incorrigible” (not because of violent behaviour or concern that she was a danger to others, but because of a parental objection), she could be charged and brought to court as long as she was under the age of 21.

That is what happened to Velma Demerson in 1939.'