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Administration of the Veterans' Preference in the Canadian Civil Service

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 1945

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References

1 Canada at War, no. 43, Pictorial Edition (Ottawa, 1945).Google Scholar

2 The Veteran in the Civil Service” (Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 03, 1945, p. 138).Google Scholar

3 Shishkin, Boris, “Organized Labour and the Veteran” (Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 03, 1945).Google Scholar

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5 Canada, House of Commons Debates, 05 13, 1918, p. 1877.Google Scholar

6 Revised Statutes of Canada, 1927, chap. 22 and amendments, cited as the Civil Service Act, 1918.

7 Report of House of Commons Special Committee, 1938, p. 90 Google Scholar, quoting V.A.C. Report p. 30-1.

8 P.C. 8541½, November 1, 1941.

9 P.C. 4320, June 20, 1945.

10 Report of House of Commons Special Committee, 1939, second and final report.

11 Public Law 359, 78th Congress, the Veterans' Preference Act, 1944.

12 Amendment to the Australian Soldiers' Repatriation Act of April, 1943 as reported in the Monthly Labour Review, 10, 1944, p. 762.Google Scholar

13 The Civil Service Act, sections 2, 19, 20.

14 Report of House of Commons Special Committee, 1934; appendix lists positions entirely excluded from the Act, those that must be classified if continued six months and those exempt from competition but otherwise under the Act.

15 Civil Service Commission Annual Report, 1938, p. 9.Google Scholar

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17 Proceedings of House of Commons Special Committee, 1923, appendix, p. 317.Google Scholar This apparently refers to male appointees only.

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20 See Canada Year Book 1943-4, P. 702.

21 In an address before the Canadian Civil Service Research Conference at Toronto, November 6, 7, 1930, Dr. W. J. Roche, then Chairman of the Civil Service Commission said that “only positions which cannot be filled by promotion are thrown open to general competition” so that “there is not a steady demand for higher grade employees before the public.”

22 April 22, 1936; cancelled by P.C. 2259, August 11, 1939 and revived by P.C. 32/1905, May 10, 1940.

23 P.C. 1/1569, April 19, 1940.

24 Ibid.

25 Re-Employment Rights of Veterans” (Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 03, 1945, p. 113).Google Scholar

26 P.C. 32/1905, May 10, 1940, para. 5 and 8 (italics mine).

27 Ottawa Evening Citizen, 07 20, 1945.Google Scholar

28 “The Veteran in the Civil Service.”