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No. 86
• Alberta was the only province in the British Empire to
“vigorously” implement an eugenics sterilization law (passed
in 1928).
• “Vigorously” = 1929 - 1972, the Alberta Eugenics board
recommended that 4,739 residents be sterilized. 2,832
received the operation*.
• 1972: The sexual sterilzation law was repealed.
• 1995: Eugenics was put on trial in Alberta with case of Leilani
Muir v. the Queen 1996.
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