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 Maillardville-Coquitlam from 1986 to 1991 and

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from 1991 to 2001 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a New Democratic Party (NDP) member. He was born in Lethbridge,

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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. Cashore has lived in

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since 1973. He served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Aboriginal Affairs, as Minister of Labour and as Minister of Environment, Lands and Parks. 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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