2024 $20 History - Amber Valley, DCAM PR70DCAM 认证号50402911, PCGS号951161

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.