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Walter D. Young fonds
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1974-1977 (Creation)
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- Young, Walter Douglas, 1933-1984
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97 cm of textual records
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Walter D. Young was born June 27, 1933 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Young was appointed a Commissioner of the Legal Services Commission by Order-in-council 2649, and his appointment took effect September 1975. In December 1974, the Justice Development Commission's Delivery of Legal Services Project presented its report (the Leask Report) which recommended the creation of a legal service commission.
The Legal Services Commission Act (B.C. Statutes, 1975, c. 36) was proclaimed on 14 August 1975, and the Commission commenced operations on 1 September, with its stated object and purpose "to see that legal services are effectively provided to, and readily obtainable by, the people of British Columbia, with special emphasis on those people to whom those services are not presently available for financial or other reasons." The Commission was established as a Crown Corporation, exempt from the Public Service Act, and its commissioners could hold office for two years. Walter Young tendered his resignation and his appointment as commissioner was rescinded 1 January 1977.
Young died in Victoria on March 11, 1984.
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The fonds consists of correspondence with members of the Legal Services Commission, reports, memos and financial statements. Fonds includes correspondence, notes, working papers, minutes of meetings of the chairman of the University Government Committee, together with formal and informal briefs presented to the committee and various reports dealing with aspects of organization of post-secondary education in Canada, the United States, and Great Britain.
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Archives code(s): MS-0665
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Accession number(s): 77-141
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- Young, Walter Douglas, 1933-1984 (Subject)