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1920-1939
- Lady
Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence. Prohibited from
entering Canada by Customs in January 1930. [Freedom
to Read Week Kit 1996 A Chronology of Freedom of Expression
in Canada, Book and Periodical Council, p. 3]
- Ulysses
by James Joyce. Banned from Canada in 1933; the ban was
finally lifted in 1949. Previously, students taking modern
literature courses at the University of British Columbia had
been given reading lists that contained a blank space; once
students got to this course level, they knew that this space
represented Ulysses. Although the book was illegal, it
was still available in the UBC library. The book had also been
available, upon application, at the Vancouver Public Library;
Victoria Public Library's copy had been kept in a vault until
the ban was lifted. [Freedom to Read
Week Kit 1996 A Chronology of Freedom of Expression in Canada,
Book and Periodical Council, p. 3; 'Ulysses' Comes Out of Hiding,
The Vancouver Sun 13 April 1950, p. 12]
- C.I.O.
- Industrial Unionism in Action. Canada-wide ban of
the book in 1937. [This Censored
Country, Victoria Times 5 January 1938, p. 12]
- Heavenly
Discourse by Colonel Charles E.S. Wood. Originally banned
in 1938, Canadian Customs in Vancouver prevented 200 copies
from entering Canada in March 1947 due to its "irreverent and
blasphemous" nature. The Chief Librarian at the Vancouver
Public Library protested the action. [Mind
War: Book Censorship in English Canada, pp. 5-6]
- The
New Masses. In 1939, this paper was barred from entering
Canada. It was felt to be "radical" because it advocated
that the United States stay out of WWII. [The
Vancouver Sun 16 November 1939, p. 4]
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