• In 1930 it becomes an offence for a pool room owner or operator to allow an Indian onto their premises.

The penalty is a fine or a one-month jail term. The Indian Act provision claims that by “inordinate frequenting of a pool room either on or off an Indian reserve”, an Indian “….misspends or wastes his time or means to the detriment of himself, his family, or his household.”

Keeping Indians out of pool halls a Canadian priority