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== Early career, civil servant (1900β1908) == [[File:KingUniform1910.jpg|thumbnail|upright|Wearing court uniform as minister of labour in 1910]] In 1900, King became editor of the federal government-owned ''Labour Gazette'', a publication that explored complex labour issues.<ref>{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Mackenzie King's legacy |url=https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/mackenzie-kings-legacy |website=CBC |access-date=22 January 2022}}</ref> Later that year, he was appointed as deputy minister of the Canadian government's new Department of Labour, and became active in policy domains from Japanese immigration to railways, notably the ''Industrial Disputes Investigations Act'' (1907) which sought to avert labour strikes by prior conciliation.<ref name="thecanadianencyclopedia.com">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Neatby |first=H. Blair |title=William Lyon Mackenzie King |encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/william-lyon-mackenzie-king |date=October 15, 2008 |publisher=Historica Canada |edition=online |access-date=July 21, 2015 |archive-date=June 7, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180607200724/http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/en/article/william-lyon-mackenzie-king/ |url-status=live }}</ref> {{Wikisource|The Secret of Heroism}} In 1901, King's roommate and best friend, [[Henry Albert Harper]], died heroically during a skating party when a young woman fell through the ice of the partly frozen [[Ottawa River]]. Harper dove into the water to try to save her, and perished in the attempt. King led the effort to raise a memorial to Harper, which resulted in the erection of the [[Sir Galahad]] statue on [[Parliament Hill]] in 1905. In 1906, King published a memoir of Harper, entitled ''The Secret of Heroism''.{{sfn|Dawson|1958|pp=129-131}} While deputy minister of labour, King was appointed to investigate the causes of and claims for compensation resulting from the 1907 [[1907 Vancouver anti-Asian riots|anti-Oriental riots]] in [[Chinatown, Vancouver|Vancouver's Chinatown]] and [[Japantown]]. One of the claims for damages came from Chinese [[opium]] dealers, which led King to investigate [[narcotics]] use in [[Vancouver]], British Columbia. Following the investigation King reported that white women were also opium users, not just Chinese men, and the federal government used the report to justify the first legislation outlawing narcotics in Canada.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Green |first=Melvyn |volume= 37 |issue=1 |date=Winter 1979 |title=A History of Narcotics Control: The Formative Years |journal=University of Toronto Law Review}}</ref>
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