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Eugenics in the Library

Context

A 1937 book, called Problems in Human Heredity, was written by a Canadian zoologist named Vincent Jackson and designed to teach eugenics in a Canadian higher educational setting. Jackson was on staff at Ontario Agricultural College before he went to teach at the University of Manitoba. This book demonstrates a Canadian version of eugenics.1(footnote)

A Eugenics Program for the United States was another source of eugenics knowledge in the Macdonald Institute Eugenics Reference Library. These were sources learners used to write their eugenics essays and exams.2(footnote)

Problems in Human Heredity
A Eugenics Program for the United States
Footnotes

  1. Vincent W. Jackson, Assistant Professor of Zoology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada 1937. “Problems in Human Heredity,” courtesy of University of Guelph McLaughlin Library Archival & Special Collections. Macdonald Institute Reference Library—Eugenics/RE1MACA0037, Box 2. ↩

  2. A Eugenics Program for the United States, courtesy of University of Guelph McLaughlin Library Archival & Special Collections, Macdonald Institute Reference Library—Eugenics/RE1MACA0037, Box 2 ↩