The Drug Menace, Thursday 2 February 1922 Excerpt from a New Era League meeting held at the Empress Theatre to pass resolutions urging immediate government action against the drug menace. The following year the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed banning all Chinese immigration. The drug trade continued unabated. This is from the speech given by Mary Ellen Smith (1863-1933), the first female Member of the Legislative Assembly in BC and both the first female cabinet minister & speaker of the house in the British Empire.    Source: Vancouver Sun
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The Drug Menace, Thursday 2 February 1922

Excerpt from a New Era League meeting held at the Empress Theatre to pass resolutions urging immediate government action against the drug menace. The following year the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed banning all Chinese immigration. The drug trade continued unabated.

This is from the speech given by Mary Ellen Smith (1863-1933), the first female Member of the Legislative Assembly in BC and both the first female cabinet minister & speaker of the house in the British Empire.   

Source: Vancouver Sun

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