William Robinson was a real person, a Black American who was murdered on Salt Spring Island in the British Colony of British Columbia in 1868. He had arrived in the Colony a decade before, as part of a contingent of Black Americans fleeing persecution and
This project on the presence of the Black community in Qu?bec and Canada had its genesis in a request by a class of young secondary school students who were studying Black History at the Da Costa Hall summer school in July 1993. These eager students of Mr
Celebrating the Underground Railroad and Early Black Settlement In Canada - Probably nowhere in Canada is there such a concentration of above-ground resources attesting to early African Canadian history: certainly nowhere else is there so rich a collectio
In a world so given to fashion trends, where everything is standardized and cloned, where culture tends to become a commodity that is packaged and can be thrown away after due consumption, the Black Historical and Cultural Society of British Columbia woul
The early history of Nova Scotia's Black communities, such as Birchtown, is almost without exception incomplete and is usually based on written records of the time. The most complete and unbiased record of Black Loyalist Birchtown is to be found in t
Amongst southern Alberta's early ranchers was a Black American immigrant named John Ware. Born in 1845 in South Carolina, Ware spent his youth in slavery. Freed at the end of the American Civil War, he drifted to Texas, where he had become an experie
Meet some of the courageous men and women who founded two Nova Scotian Black Loyalist communities, Birchtown and Tracadie in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
