Canadian Sterilization Timeline
Category: Other
Updated: 17 Nov 2020
SOSC3920 assignment
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Created byMalcolm Hinds
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Francis Galton coins term "Eugenics"Psychologist Alfred Binet creates an IQ testThe Canadian National Committee for Mental Hygiene is establishedProvincial Training School for Mental Defectives opensDoreen Befus bornSexual Sterilization Act passed into law in AlbertaThe Eugenics Society of Canada is founded in OntarioSexual Sterilization Act of British ColombiaAmendment to the Alberta Sexual Sterilization ActLeilani Muir is bornCanadian Association for Retarded Children is createdRoyal Commission on Health Services report releasedR.W. Blair releases report of his inquiry into the mental health systems in AlbertaDoreen is released from institutionsSexual Sterilization Act of Alberta is repealedBritish Columbia Sexual Sterilization Act is repealedCharter of Rights and Freedom is brought into effectDoreen diesLeilani Muir diesDoreen does a cross-country tour to promote disability rightsLeilani Muir sues government of AlbertaCourt rules on Muir's caseDoreen Befus is sterilizedDoreen placed in the Provincial Training SchoolLeilani Muir brought to the Provincial Trainging SchoolCanadian Association for Retarded Children renamedCanadian Association for the Mentally Retarded renamedHelen MacMurchy becomes Ontario's "Inspector of the Feeble-Minded."MacMurchy’s The Almosts: A Study of the Feeble-Minded, is publishedElectric shock therapy introduced1926 report from Provincial Training SchoolGovernment of Alberta issues an apology regarding the forced sterilizationsPonoka Alberta Mental Hospital foundedPeriods
International Year of the DisabledEugenics gains popularity across CanadaWidespread deinstitutionalization of mental hospital residents across Canada“Lunatic Asylums” start to be created across Canada
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