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1950s-2019 (Creation)
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- Muir, Leilani
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- 67 cm of textual records
- 12 photographs
- 9 slides
- 2 VHS cassettes
- 1 USB
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Leilani Muir was an inmate of the Provincial Training School for Mental Defectives in Red Deer and was wrongfully subjected to a surgical operation to sterilize her. She sued the Alberta government for wrongful sterilization and won damages after a trial in Edmonton in 1995. Her case became widely known and opened the door to class action lawsuits for many other sterilization survivors. She became a public figure and in 2014 published a book A Whisper Past: Childless After Eugenics Sterilization in Alberta. Leilani was part of the Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada project, and worked to collect data on the province's eugenic history. She made a significant contribution to human rights in Alberta.
Custodial history
Records were donated by Dr. Douglas Wahlsten, Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta, and the executor of Leilani Muir's (O'Malley) will.
Scope and content
The fonds consists of records related to Leilani Muir and her case Muir v. Alberta. See inventories associated with each accession for file lists.