1830

1839-05-11: Ontario passes “An Act to Authorise the Erection of an Asylum within this Province for the Reception of Insane and Lunatic Person.”

1860

1865: First proto-eugenics articles by Francis Galton in MacMillan's Magazine

1866-02-20: Gregor Mendel publishes his paper, “Versuche über Pflanzenhybriden”

1867: Ugly Laws

1867: Canadian Constitution Act gives federal parliament legislative authority over "Indians, and Lands reserved for Indians"

1869: Galton publishes Hereditary Genius

1870

1870: Canadian Residential Schools in operation

1871: Charles Darwin publishes The Descent of Man

Canadian National Committee on Mental Hygiene (CNCMH) renamed the Canadian Mental Hygiene Association (CMHA)

1950. Many eugenicists, such as Clarence Hincks and A.R. Kaufman, continued to be actively involved with CMHA in the post-war period.

Strange, C. & Bashford, A. (2010). Eugenics in Canada: A Checkered History, 1850s-1990s. A. Bashford & P. Levine (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Canadian National Committee on Mental Hygiene (CNCMH) renamed the Canadian Mental Hygiene Association (CMHA)

1950. Many eugenicists, such as Clarence Hincks and A.R. Kaufman, continued to be actively involved with CMHA in the post-war period.

Strange, C. & Bashford, A. (2010). Eugenics in Canada: A Checkered History, 1850s-1990s. A. Bashford & P. Levine (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.