Dorothy Hewitt, of Jamaican ancestry, was married to a white teacher at Shawnigan Lake Boy’s School. She was told by Headmaster G. Peter Kaye to leave the school “before the boys come and see a coloured person here.” Her husband resigned, and they returned to Jamaica. Numerous articles were written about this case. Dorothy’s father, Noel Holtz, was the accountant general of the Jamaican government. The Jamaican House of Representatives sent protests to Canada.
Ray Baines, Colonist Legislative Reporter, frankly wrote in his column “Under The Dome,” “It doesn’t matter what words were used, who said them or how the discrimination was disguised. Strip away all the excess verbiage, explanations, and euphemisms like “mixed marriage” and what is left is racial discrimination.”
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