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O'Meara, Arthur Eugene
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1859-?
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Arthur Eugene O'Meara was born in 1859 in Port Hope, Ontario.
He obtained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto in 1882 and was called to the bar in 1885. He also became a clergyman around age 40.
Arthur O'Meara worked closely with Indigenous peoples primarily in British Columbia to bring protests and concerns over land claims to government bodies. He notably served as a counsel member during the Allied Tribes of British Columbia's historic presentation regarding land claims to the 1927 Special Committee of the Senate and the House of Commons
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Created by NM in 2020.
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Patterson, E. Palmer. “Arthur E. O'Meara, Friend of the Indians.” The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, vol. 58, no. 2, 1967, pp. 90–99.