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Council to meet with Victoria City Council to decide the leper matter – November 13, 1891

Posted by By Posted in1891
A committee was appointed to meet with representatives from Victoria to establish a jointly-funded leprosy quarantine facility. This transcript was made in 2016 by Transcribimus volunteer Margaret Sutherland and sponsored…
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Leprosy correspondence to be made public – November 9, 1891

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All correspondence between the City, the Dominion Government and the C.P.R. regarding the leper cases to be published. City Market hall rented for a Temperance lecture for the sum of…
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Chinese citizens to be buried separately – December 29, 1890, 7:30 pm

Chinese citizens to be buried separately – December 29, 1890, 7:30 pm

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Chinese community granted separate plot in Cemetery. Telephones needed to connect the Sheriff's office in Vancouver and in the New Westminster Courthouse to "facilitate the processes of the law." A…
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Chinese residents to be evicted from Stanley Park – June 3, 1889

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Health inspector to remove "nuisances" along the Park Road, "particularly the Chinese in the vicinity of the Lodge". [Stanley] Park ranger instructed to impound dogs without license tags. Call for…
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