Editing William Osler (section)

===Racism===
Osler said Canada should be a "white man's country" in a 1914 speech given around the time of the [[Komagata Maru incident]] involving immigration from India.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=William Osler: saint in a "White man's dominion" |last1=Persaud |first1=Nav |last2=Butts |first2=Heather|last3=Berger |first3=Philip |journal = Canadian Medical Association Journal |volume = 192|issue = 45|date=2020-11-09 |pages=E1414–E1416 |doi=10.1503/cmaj.201567 |language=en |pmid = 33168766|pmc=7669299 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |title=Piety and prejudice. In his respect for the Jewish people, Osler was less a man of his time than a man of his profession |last=Wallis |first=Faith |journal = Canadian Medical Association Journal |volume = 156|issue = 11|date=1997-06-01 |pages=1549–51 |language=en |pmid = 9176421|pmc=1227495 }}</ref>
Osler wrote "I hate Latin Americans" in a letter to Henry Vining Ogden.<ref>{{cite book |last=Weistrop |first=Leonard |date =1968 |title=The Life & Letters of Dr. Henry Vining Ogden, 1857–1931 |location= Milwaukee |publisher= Milwaukee Academy of Medicine Press |isbn= 9780961707002}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Venugopal |first=Raghu |date=June 1996 |title=Reading between the lines: a glimpse of the Cushing files and The Life of Sir William Osler. |url=https://www.mcgill.ca/library/files/library/Osnl82.pdf |journal=Osler Library Newsletter |volume=82 |pages=1–4}}</ref>
Under the pseudonym "Egerton Yorrick Davis", Osler mocked Indigenous people: "Every primitive tribe retains some vile animal habit not yet eliminated in the upward march of the race."<ref>{{cite book |last=Golden |first=Richard |date =1999 |title= The works of Egerton Yorrick Davis, MD: Sir William Osler's alter ego |location= Montreal |publisher= McGill University |isbn= 9780771705489 }}</ref>
Uncovering this historical context, the journalists David Bruser and Markus Grill and the archivist [[Nils Seethaler]] reconstruct the shipment of several indigenous skulls by Osler from Canada to Germany, which were (previously unknown) in the custody of the State Museums of Berlin.<ref>David Bruser/Markus Grill: The untold story of four Indigenous skulls given away by one of Canada’s most famous doctors, and the quest to bring them home. Toronto Star, 17.12.20.</ref>