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Our Own Master Race: Eugenics in Canada, 1885-1945

Our Own Master Race: Eugenics in Canada, 1885-1945

McLaren, Angus

Paperback

Series: Canadian Social History

Canadian HistoryNative American HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1442659645
ISBN13: 9781442659643
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Dec 15 1990
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Was Canada immune to the racist currents of thought that swept central Europe in the 1920's and 1930's? In this landmark book Angus McLaren, co-author of The Bedroom and the State, examines the pervasiveness in Canada of the eugenic notion of race betterment and demonstrates that many Canadians believed that radical measures were justified to protect the community from the degenerate. The sterilization of the feeble-minded in Alberta and British Columbia was merely the most dramatic attempt to limit the numbers of the unfit. But in the decades prior to World War Two, eugenic preoccupations were to colour discussions of immigration restriction, birth control, mental testing, family allowances, and a host of similar social policies.

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