Abstract
In 1936 Dorothea Palmer, one of the hired representatives of A.R. Kaufman’s Parents’ Information Bureau, was tried for distributing birth control information to the women of Eastview, Ontario. Because of the public attention drawn to the trial it has become a commonplace notion that Kaufman — a conservative businessman — was the first Canadian to propagate birth control ideas. In fact, a decade earlier in British Columbia the Canadian Birth Control League was founded. This paper seeks to explain why birth control should have been first defended in Canada by western socialists.
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