Alberta History 1927-1930

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1927

Henry Ford, using his company newspapers, conducted anti Semitic campaigns, which Hitler would later use to conduct his campaign against the Jews. In 1929 Henry Ford is forced to retract his anti Semitic comments but the damage done cannot be retracted. This marked the moral, social decline and fall of Henry Ford who began losing touch with reality.

Nelle Hetita McClung (1873-1951) is known for her activities for 'Women's Rights', the 'Suffrage Movement', a Liberal member of the Alberta Legislature and the CBC Board of Governors. This year she joined forces with Emily Murphy, Irene Parlby, Louise McKinney, and Henrietta Edwards. They believed that the poor and sick are responsible for societies failings. They believed that eugenics improved the population by eliminating undesirable genetic traits. They believed visible minorities and feeble-minded should be sterilized. They campaigned vigorously for eugenics and sterilization in Canada. These women are guilty of crimes against humanity by their association. Governor General Adrienne Clarkson says these famous five had human flaws. A very mild mention of their atrocities. The Nuremberg Trials declared sterilization as a crime against humanity. These infamous women suffered from an Anglo Saxon master race complex.


The U.S.A. Supreme Court established the basis for forced sterilization in support of Eugenics (Race Superiority). Eugenics swept through 27 states resulting in wholesale sterilization. Alberta would adopt Eugenics in 1928 and Adolf Hitler in 1933. The Germans would eventually sterilize some 500,000 people. The sick joke during the eugenic age is that the Germans are beating the Americans at their own game.



1928

Alberta Health Minister George Hoadley, a rancher, applied the genetic lessons he had learned in cattle raising to humankind and he sponsored the Sterilization Act. The Alberta Sexual Sterilization Act is established based on the eugenics that believes the human race can be improved by selective breeding. This law provided compulsory sexual sterilization on anyone considered psychotic or mentally defective. The Alberta Act allowed sterilization without consent of the person, a relative, guardian or Judge. Adolf Hitler would adopt this Alberta practice to sterilize undesirables. Between 1928 and 1972, 2,844 people would be involuntarily sterilized in Alberta. British Columbia had a similar sterilization law from 1933 to 1973 but only 400 people were sterilized. B.C. required a judge be involved in the decision but not so in Alberta.

April 24: The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously renders a judgment that women are not "qualified persons" and therefore ineligible to sit in the Senate. This is a result of a petition from Alberta. The BNA act of 1867 states only fit and qualified persons could be appointed to the Senate. Under the common law of England, women are legally incapable of hold public office. In 1929 the Privy Council in London, England overturned the ruling relative to women being able to sit on the Senate. The Privy Council of England ruled that the Canadian Supreme Court judgment was a relic of days more barbarous than ours. Although Judge Emily Murphy is recommended widely, she is not chosen for the Senate as another Senator stated that she would have stirred up too much trouble.





1929

When we think of Emily Murphy (1868-1933) we think of her activity for 'Women's Rights', we think of her being a 'Police Magistrate'. She speaks of her 'feelings of being equal to a high and splendid braveries' but she has a very black side to her nature that is seldom spoken. She achieved her braveries on the backs of the poor and ignorant. She believes that the poor and sick are responsible for society failings. She believes to improve the population by eliminating undesirable genetic traits. She vigorously campaigned for the heinous crime of eugenics and forced sterilization. She was in the same camp as Adolph Hitler, and who speaks for the thousands of her victims?

During 1929-1930, the Alberta Research Council and the Federal Department of Mines built and operated an oil separation plant on the Clearwaters River near Waterways, handling twenty five tons of oil-sand a day. The oil from this plant was shipped to Edmonton.

The Hudson Bay Railway is nearing completion.

The Edmonton citizens were shocked to learn that teen-age prostitutes were plying their trade in the down town areas of the city. They were unable to earn a living for food, clothing, and shelter on their pay of $7.50 per week. The minimum Wage Board established a $14 per week wage was required, the The Women's Labor Conference recommend $20 per week as minimum wage. Few girls under twenty years age received anything like $14 per week. Edmonton at this time had a population of only 58,821.

October 18: Five Alberta women, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Emily Murphy and Irene Parlby, successfully petitioned British Privy Council to constitutionally recognize women under the British North American Act. In effect woman are now classified as persons rather than things (possessions). It is noteworthy that the feminists will not give this same right under law to the unborn child this century. The unborn child is neither a person or a thing under law and therefore has no human rights.





1930

During the depression (III)-Mathias Salzl worked in Edmonton on Jasper Avenue doing shoe repairs while his family stayed on the farm to grow their own food. He would walk the forty-six miles, round trip, carrying supplies to his family. This doesn't seem like a big deal but you have to remember he didn't have any feet, only stumps on blocks of wood.

The Alberta Government achieves a long standing sore point and gets the Federal Government to return Alberta's Natural Resources to Provincial control. This is one of the Metis Resistance movement requests of 1885.

The first white settlers in southern Alberta would recall this decade by remembering the early warnings of the Natives of this land. They are warned about past years when the Great Prairies were parched, when even the buffalo were driven away by hunger and the Indians had to follow them or starve.

The Swedish Shale Oil Company made oil from oil shale during the war by underground heating. A man named Absher tried forcing the Alberta Tar Sands oil up a drill hole by setting fire to the sands at the bottom in a process called destructive distillation. Unfortunately the air pipe that fed the fire kept failing under the intense heat.

Alberta finally allowed single women to apply for homesteads when there is virtually no land left to homestead.

When you asked how's it going, Albertans say "slicker'n a brookie! A brookie is a brook trout. When talking about one dying they said "gone to sand hill".

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