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

Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns Independently Recreate Gregor Mendel's Work on Heredity

May 16, 1900. Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns independently recreate Gregor Mendel's work on heredity in the 1890s, publishing their findings in 1900 in the Comtes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences. de Vries and Correns' work leads to the rediscovery of Mendel's writings, which had remained obscure since its original publication in 1865. Both sets of work become instrumental to establishing theories of genetic linkage and evolutionary biology.

-Amy Dyrbye

Kevles, D. (1985). In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the uses of Human Heredity. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns Independently Recreate Gregor Mendel's Work on Heredity

May 16, 1900. Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns independently recreate Gregor Mendel's work on heredity in the 1890s, publishing their findings in 1900 in the Comtes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences. de Vries and Correns' work leads to the rediscovery of Mendel's writings, which had remained obscure since its original publication in 1865. Both sets of work become instrumental to establishing theories of genetic linkage and evolutionary biology.

-Amy Dyrbye

Kevles, D. (1985). In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the uses of Human Heredity. Berkeley: University of California Press.