John Cashore

{{Short description|Canadian politician (born 1935)}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = John Cashore, 1992.jpg | honorific_prefix = The Reverend | name = John Cashore | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1935|03|26}} | birth_place = Lethbridge, Alberta | death_date = | constituency_AM1 = Coquitlam-Maillardville<br><small>Maillardville-Coquitlam (1986-1991)</small> | assembly1 = British Columbia Legislative | term_start1 = October 22, 1986 | term_end1 = May 16, 2001 | predecessor1 = John Michael Parks | successor1 = Richard Stewart | party = New Democrat | occupation = }}

'''John Massey Cashore''' (born March 26, 1935)<ref name="ohandley"/> is a United Church minister and former politician in British Columbia. He represented Maillardville-Coquitlam from 1986 to 1991 and Coquitlam-Maillardville from 1991 to 2001 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a New Democratic Party (NDP) member.

Cashore was born in Lethbridge, Alberta, the son of John Harvey Cashore and Sarah Mildred Massey, and was educated at the University of British Columbia and Union College. In 1961, he married Sharon Elizabeth Cunliffe.<ref name="ohandley">{{cite book |title=Canadian Parliamentary Guide |year=1995 |last=O'Handley |first=Kathryn}}</ref> They moved to Coquitlam, British Columbia, 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.leg.bc.ca/mla/36thparl/Cashore.htm |title=John Cashore |publisher=Legislative Assembly of British Columbia |accessdate=2012-02-20}}</ref> In 2005, he became a member of the advisory council for the Georgia Strait Alliance.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.georgiastrait.org/?q=node/162 |title=Advisory Council |publisher=Georgia Strait Alliance |accessdate=2012-02-20}}</ref>

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