Recently published research by food historian Ian Mosby has revealed details about one of the least-known but perhaps most disturbing aspects of government policy toward aboriginal people immediately after the Second World War.
"It was experiments being conducted on malnourished aboriginal people," Mosby, a post-doctoral fellow in history at the University of Guelph, told CBC's As It Happens program on Tuesday.
"It started with research trips in
northern Manitoba where they found, you know, widespread hunger, if not
starvation, among certain members of the community. And one of their
immediate responses was to design a controlled experiment on the
effectiveness of vitamin supplementation on this population."
Mosby also found that plans were
developed for research on aboriginal children in residential schools in
British Columbia, Ontario, Nova Scotia and Alberta.
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