First Nations nutrition experiments
The First Nations nutrition experiments were a series of experiments run in Canada by Department of Pensions and National Health in the 1940s and 1950s. The experiments involved nutrient-poor isolated communities such as those in The Pas and Norway House in northern Manitoba and in residential schools and were designed to discover relative importance and optimum levels of the then-newly discovered vitamins. The Calgary Herald has described the deaths connected with the experiments as 'genocide'.
