John Massey Cashore (born March 26, 1935) is a

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minister and former political figure in

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. He represented

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from 1986 to 1991 and

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from 1991 to 2001 in the

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as a

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(NDP) member. He was born in

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, the son of John Harvey Cashore and Sarah Mildred Massey, and was educated at the

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and

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. In 1961, he married Sharon Elizabeth Cunliffe. They moved to

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, in 1973. He served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Aboriginal Affairs, as Minister of Labour, as Minister of Environment, Lands and Parks, and briefly as Minister of Multiculturalism and Human Rights. He also served as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Education. In 2005, he became a member of the advisory council for the Georgia Strait Alliance.

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