1. Theory and Practice in Canada
Eugenics in Canada
Theory and Practice in Canada

2. Survival of the Fittest
It was Francis Galton (Charles Darwin's cousin) who coined the term "eugenics" in 1883
Greek for "well-born“
to describe the process of improving or impairing "the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally.”
-idea was influential across North America in the first half of the 20th-century.

3. Human Breeding
The pseudo-science argued that inferior or defective people would pass on their defectiveness to their children
promoted sterilization, marriage laws and segregation of the mentally handicapped.

4. Evil Immigrants
Eugenics theory popular with Canadian Protestant Anglo-Saxons, who feared that they would be "outbred" by degenerate immigrant groups.

5. 1928, Alberta
Introduced the Sexual Sterilization Act which promoted the surgical sterilization of "mental defectives". This policy remained in effect in Alberta until 1972 and in British Columbia until

6. The Mitchener Center - Red Deer, Alberta where many sterilization victims were institutionalized