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1940-1949
- History
of England by H.B. King. In December 1943, John Stanton,
Trade Union Representative and candidate for the Vancouver School
Board, claimed this textbook and other history texts used in
Vancouver schools distorted history and should be removed and
replaced. This textbook was mentioned in particular, as
it "slandered" Stalin for stating that he was a dictator. [Mind
War: Book Censorship in English Canada, p. 6]
- In 1945, The
Vancouver Sun was fined $300 for publishing that they felt
the West Coast defenses were weak. [Mind
War: Censorship in English Canada, p. 10]
- Bernard
Clare by James T. Farrell. Prohibited by Canada Customs
in 1946. [Freedom to Read Week Kit 1996
A Chronology of Freedom of Expression in Canada, Book and Periodical
Council, p. 3; Mind War: Book Censorship in English Canada,
p. 5]
- Fast
and Loose, On Going Naked, No
Bed of Her Own, Here is My
Body, and Awful Disclosures.
Banned by Canadian Customs in 1946. [Mind
War: Book Censorship in English Canada, p. 5]
- God's
Little Acre by Erskine Caldwell. In 1948, Canada prohibited
this book's importation even though a Canadian printed edition
remained available. [Freedom to Read
Beyond Walls, The Vancouver Sun, 24 February, 1996, Final Edition,
p.D16]
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In April 1948, the BC Provincial
government began to control the sale of health literature, after a book
on venereal disease, sold in Toronto, was declared "salacious." [BC
Will Control Health Literature, The Daily Colonist 23 April 1948, p. 9]
- The
Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer. Banned in Canada
in 1949 by the Minister of National Revenue, who thought the
book was "disgusting" even though he had not read it.
The book had been available in Canada for almost a year. [Freedom
to Read Week Kit 1996 A Chronology of Freedom of Expression
in Canada, Book and Periodical Council, p. 3]
- Sanctuary
by William Faulkner, Eugenics
and Sex Harmony by H.H. Hecht, Journal
of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth Patchen, Memoirs
of Hecate County by E. Wilson, and A
Jew in Love by Ben Hecht. Banned by Customs in 1949.
[Mind War: Book Censorship in English
Canada, p. 6; Freedom to Read Kit, 1996, A Chronology of Freedom
of Expression in Canada, p. 3]
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