Correspondence on JC Pensions and Elections Act

Correspondence on JC Pensions and Elections Act

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Title Proper F0 GR1222 BOX 072 FILE 09
Date(s) 1948
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This file contains a textual record.
Scope and content
Correspondence regarding Japanese and Japanese Canadian old age pensions. Correspondence between Premier John Hart, Provincial Secretary George Pearson, and George Tanaka regarding an amendment to the Provincial “Elections Act” and “legislative disqualifications in British Columbia against Japanese Canadians.”
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Immediate source of acquisition
The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.
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Correspondence on JC Pensions and Elections Act
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