History Helps Volume Seven, Number 11, October 2007
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• Greetings
• Bear Hunting
• Post World War Two Conditions
• Subscription, Privacy Policy

GREETINGS!

Happy Thanksgiving (Monday, October 8th) to all our Canadian subscribers).

BEAR HUNTING

“NEW WESTMINSTER NEWS:

The dressed carcass of a bear was a centre of much interest at the Fraser River Fish and Game Market on Front street last evening awaiting shipment to Vancouver, where it had been sold. It certainly looked appetising, as fat as a well fed pig.

The killing of a bear hereabouts is not a rare happening but this event furnishes a pretty good hunting yarn.

W. Leary, of the Delta, with a friend was deer hunting a few days ago near the foothills back of Ladner when their dog ran a bear into a detached clump of scrub trees standing out in the marsh. Posting themselves one on each side of the jungle, the dog was sent in on the spoor and soon [the] bruin appeared near the position of one of the huntsmen, who put a bullet in over the animal’s eye at a range of six feet, and the bear is dead.”

Source: Vancouver Daily World, 20 December 1899.

Post World War Two Conditions

“DISCHARGED PERSONNEL MAY RETURN TO OLD JOBS

The Reinstatement in Civil Employment Act, passed by Parliament in 1942, sets forth conditions under which employers MUST REINSTATE their former employees in their employment after discharge.

This Act and Its Regulations are administered by the Dominion Minister of Labour, through the National Employment Service. Reinstatement Officers are available in the National Employment Offices to answer inquiries, and assist in adjusting cases.

Employees -- either men or women -- are to be reinstated if:

(1) they worked for their employer 3 months immediately prior to enlistment, and were not replacing another employee who has since been reinstated;

(b) they left their employment to join the Armed Services, the Merchant Marine, or the Fire Fighters Corps;

(c) they apply to their employer for reinstatement, verbally or in writing, within 3 months following discharge in Canada or 4 months if discharged Overseas.

Provision may be made for extension of time if the employee’s health prevents him or her from returning within the specified three months. In this event, the employer must be advised within the 3 or 4 months, as the case may be.

The following points in the legislation are also important:

1. Discharged men and women upon reinstatement are to be given conditions not less favourable than would have been enjoyed had they continued in employment instead of joining the Forces.

2. The period of time spent with the Armed Services is to count for seniority rights, pension rights, vacations with pay, and certain other benefits.

3. Discharged personnel who cannot perform their former duties are to be reinstated in the most suitable employment available, at which they are capable of working.

4. If an employer dismisses a reinstated employee within 6 months, he must be able to prove in court that he had reasonable cause for so doing.

ALL EX-SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN ARE URGED TO USE THE FACILITIES OF THE NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SERVICE WHEN LOOKING FOR WORK.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR

HUMPHREY MITCHELL		A. MacNAMARA
Minister of Labour		Deputy Minister of Labour”

Source: The Ladner Optimist, Thursday, 01 November 1945, page three.

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