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Viola Irene Desmond (1914 – 1965) was a Canadian civil and women's rights activist and businesswoman of Black Nova Scotian descent. In 1946, she challenged racial segregation at a cinema in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, by refusing to leave a whites-only area of the Roseland Theatre. For this, she was convicted of a minor tax violation for the one-cent tax difference between the seat that she had paid for and the seat that she used, which was more expensive. Desmond's case is one of the most publicized incidents of racial discrimination in Canadian history and helped start the modern civil rights movement in Canada
Willie O’Ree made sports and human rights history the moment he donned a Boston Bruins jersey and stepped onto the ice of the Montreal Forum on January 18, 1958. That night, O’Ree became the first black player to play in the National Hockey League (NHL),
Black Loyalists were people of African descent who sided with the Loyalists during the American Revolutionary War. In particular, the term refers to men who escaped enslavement by colonial masters and served on the Loyalist side because of the Crown's guarantee of freedom. Nova Scotia’s Black Loyalists were at the heart of the greatest historical events of our continent. Theirs is a story of slavery, the American Revolution, and of the settlement of North America. Unlike the stories of the United Empire Loyalists and the American revolutionaries, this is a story that has rarely been told. Birchtown’s Black Loyalist Heritage Centre is a place to tell this story. “People of African descent have been in what is now Canada since the opening years of the 17th century, but the first massive wave of Black immigration into Canada took place in 1783, when about 3,000 Black Loyalists fled New York City after aiding the British on the losing side of the American Revolutionary War and sailed to Nova Scotia. They settled in Annapolis Royal, Digby and Saint John (then Nova Scotia) among other communities, but the largest Black settlement became Birchtown, just outside the booming town of Shelburne. The story of the Black Loyalists—how they served the British in the war in exchange for the promise of freedom in peace time, and how they travelled to Nova Scotia only to endure hardships of slavery, indentured servitude, landlessness and hunger—is one of the great stories of Canadian history. Their perseverance, as well as the decision made by about 1,200 of them to leave Canada and to sail across the Atlantic Ocean to found the colony of Freetown in Sierra Leone in 1792—suggests the breadth and complexity of the world-wide migrations they had experienced as a result of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and its aftermath. Although many Nova Scotians joined the exodus to Sierra Leone in 1792, even more stayed behind to continue to build the province of Nova Scotia as we know it today.
From the early 1800s through 1865, at least 30,000 enslaved people of African descent fled to British North America by way of a covert network of routes and safe houses. They risked it all for the promise of freedom at the end of their long journey, and that freedom had a name: "the promised land" that is present-day Canada. Many of these freedom seekers—men, women and children—travelled by foot, and often at night to avoid re-capture. Once in Canada, they found refuge in Black communities and settled in parts of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, where they were secure in their freedom, but not free from discrimination. The 2022 Canadian coin commemorating Black History honors the flight to freedom of those who "rode" the Underground Railroad to Canada, a safe haven after slavery was abolished there on August 1, 1834.
From the early 1800s through 1865, at least 30,000 enslaved people of African descent fled to British North America by way of a covert network of routes and safe houses. They risked it all for the promise of freedom at the end of their long journey, and that freedom had a name: "the promised land" that is present-day Canada. Many of these freedom seekers—men, women and children—travelled by foot, and often at night to avoid re-capture. Once in Canada, they found refuge in Black communities and settled in parts of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, where they were secure in their freedom, but not free from discrimination. The 2022 Canadian coin commemorating Black History honors the flight to freedom of those who "rode" the Underground Railroad to Canada, a safe haven after slavery was abolished there on August 1, 1834.
After facing widespread rejections while trying to enlist for service in the First World War, people in Black communities across Canada pressured the government and military officials to intervene. The No. 2 Construction Battalion was formed in 1916 as a segregated unit – the first and only all-Black battalion-sized formation in Canadian military history. More than 600 men – mostly from Nova Scotia but also from New Brunswick, Ontario, Western Canada, the United States and the West Indies – were initially accepted following a nationwide recruitment effort.
Amber Valley is an unincorporated community in northern Alberta, Canada, approximately 160 kilometres (99 mi) north of Edmonton. Originally named Pine Creek, Amber Valley was among several Alberta communities settled in the early 20th century by early Black immigrants to the province from Oklahoma and the Deep South of the United States. About 1,000 African Americans emigrated to Alberta from 1909-1911. Amber Valley is the location of the Obadiah Place provincial heritage site, a homestead of one of the first African-American settler families. The town was founded in 1910 by Black families from Oklahoma, Texas and other U.S. states, seeking a life away from U.S. segregationist laws, racial hostility and violence. They journeyed to Northern Alberta in response to Canada’s offer of free land in the Canadian west. By 1910, approximately 300 men, women and children carved out a new life in a thriving community, renamed Amber Valley in 1931.
Amber Valley is an unincorporated community in northern Alberta, Canada, approximately 160 kilometres (99 mi) north of Edmonton. Originally named Pine Creek, Amber Valley was among several Alberta communities settled in the early 20th century by early Black immigrants to the province from Oklahoma and the Deep South of the United States. About 1,000 African Americans emigrated to Alberta from 1909-1911. Amber Valley is the location of the Obadiah Place provincial heritage site, a homestead of one of the first African-American settler families. The town was founded in 1910 by Black families from Oklahoma, Texas and other U.S. states, seeking a life away from U.S. segregationist laws, racial hostility and violence. They journeyed to Northern Alberta in response to Canada’s offer of free land in the Canadian west. By 1910, approximately 300 men, women and children carved out a new life in a thriving community, renamed Amber Valley in 1931.