By the spring of 1860, 40 to 50 Black men had enrolled in the Victoria Pioneer Rifle Corps and in July 1861 were officially sworn in. The Royal Navy supplied drill sergeants and the Corps financed and built a drill house. The Victoria Pioneer Rifle Corps is considered the first British or Canadian military unit formed west of Ontario.
John Sullivan Deas took over the salmon canning business that had been started by Edward Stamp and pre-empted the land between Delta […]
The success of the Black History Month 1994 event by the Special Event Advisory Committee working with the Royal BC Museum and […]
Some Black pioneers did return to the U.S. to fight in the Civil War and after the Civil War. The abolition of […]
Edsworth Searles was the first Black lawyer called to the bar in BC. Canadian born, of British West Indian parents, Edsworth graduated […]
