Eugenics in Alberta, from 1929 to 1972: "Like begets like," they said.
He had been abandoned by his Cree mother at age 7, so the government put him in the "training School" in Red Deer, Alberta. Hospital whites haunt him to this day. The smell of disinfectant bccame so familiar that later in life, it was comforting. It was around his 16th birthday that a surgeon made two deep incisions and severed his vas deferens. His 20 years of confinement was followed by many years trying to overcome the past.
In 1972, medical and genetic theories were deemed questionable; fundamental human rights were in violation.
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