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BC@150: 'Birth of liberty' in 1871 excluded women, Indigenous citizens, people of Asian origin


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It didn’t include women, who were not yet persons in Canadian law, but were legally chattels of their fathers or husbands.
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Nor did it extend to Indigenous British Columbians who had been annexed into the colony before provincehood, along with their traditional and historic lands. Among its first acts, the new province would strip its First Nations citizens the same ones welcomed to the Confederation Day party in New Westminster of the right to vote for their new government. They would subsequently be denied the right to organize politically and, a bit later, prohibited even from hiring lawyers to represent their interests in court. ....

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