Calgary Public Library

Surviving eugenics, Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada production; directed and produced by Jordan Miller, Nicola Fairbrother, Robert A. Wilson

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Surviving eugenics

Filmed between June 2012 and October 2014, in Calgary, Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, and Victoria, British Columbia

Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada production; directed and produced by Jordan Miller, Nicola Fairbrother, Robert A. Wilson

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Surviving Eugenics is a documentary about the history and ongoing significance of eugenics. Anchored by survivor narratives from the province of Alberta in Canada, Surviving Eugenics provides a unique insiders' view of life in institutions for the "feeble-minded", and raises broader questions about disability, human variation, and contemporary social policies"In 1996, Leilani Muir won a landmark legal case against the Canadian province of Alberta for wrongful sterilization and confinement at the Provincial Training School in Red Deer, an institution for 'mental defectives'. Surviving Eugenics traces the history and ongoing significance of eugenics in Canada. Anchored by survivor narratives from Leilani and four other eugenics survivors from Alberta, and drawing on expert testimony from those involved in the case, Surviving Eugenics provides a unique insiders' view of eugenics history while raising broader questions about disability and human variation in contemporary North American society."--Container

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