Uploaded January 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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 eugenic history while raising broader questions about disability and human variation in contemporary North American society.
Directed and produced by Jordan Miller, Nicola Fairbrother & Rob A. Wilson
available at movingimages.ca
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 eugenic history while raising broader questions about disability and human variation in contemporary North American society.
Directed and produced by Jordan Miller, Nicola Fairbrother & Rob A. Wilson
available at movingimages.ca
