wrongful confinement, and sterilization. At the age of 10, Muir, an unwanted and abused child, was admitted to the Provincial Training School for Mental Defectives (PTS) in Red Deer, Alberta. She was confined to the facility until 1965 when she left against medical direction. Years later, during struggles with infertility, failed marriages and depression, Muir would learn that she had been sterilized during an appendectomy while detained at the PTS. Further, IQ testing would reveal that Muir did not suffer from mental deficiency. The court ruled in favour of the plaintiff and awarded Muir $740,780 CAD and an additional sum of $230,000 CAD for legal costs. This precedent-setting case opened the doors for other individuals seeking reparation for suffering under the Sexual Sterilization Act. Resources Christian, Timothy J. The Mentally Ill and Human Rights in Alberta: A Study of the Alberta Sexual Sterilization Act. University of Alberta, Faculty of Law, 1973. Dowbiggin, Ian Robert. Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada 1880–1940. Cornell University Press, 1997. Grekul, Jana Marie. The Social Construction of the Feebleminded Threat: Implementation of the Sexual Sterilization Act in Alberta 1929 – 1972. University of Alberta, Ph.D. Thesis, 2002. Grekul, Jana Marie. "A Well-Oiled Machine: Alberta's Eugenics Program, 1928-1972", in Alberta History, vol. 59, no. 3. Summer 2011. pp. 16–23. Institute of Law Research and Reform. Competence and Human Reproduction, Report No. 52. Edmonton, Alberta, February 1989. Institute of Law Research and Reform. Sterilization Decisions: Minors and Mentally Incompetent Adults, Report for Discussion No. 6. Edmonton, Alberta, March 1988. National Film Board of Canada. The Sterilization of Leilani Muir. Video recording, 1996. McLaren, Angus. Our Own Master Race: Eugenics in Canada, 1885–1945. John Deyell Company, 1990. Wahlsten, Douglas. Genetica 99. Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997. References External links The Sexual Sterilization Act. Our Future, Our Past: The Alberta Heritage Digitization Project. Retrieved July 11, 2011. The Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada 1928 in Canadian law Alberta Alberta provincial legislation Health law in Canada Repealed Canadian legislation Political history of Alberta Health in Alberta 1928 in Alberta