Black History Month 2021 – BC Black History Awareness Society

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Toni Boot is the 1st Black women to be elected a councillor in BC

Toni Boot had been active in her community for many years, serving on various boards including Regional District Okanagan-Similkameen board, Okanagan Basin […]

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Notable Black Women in Canadian History

In celebration of Women’s History Month in Canada, local historian and writer Merna Forster spoke about notable Black women in Canadian History. […]

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June 25,1883: Grafton Tyler Brown art exhibition opens in Victoria

Grafton Tyler Brown is considered the first professional Black artist in the Pacific west. The one-week art exhibition, the first art exhibit […]

Viola Desmond refuses to move to the balcony

Viola Desmond went to the Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia on November 8, 1946. She sat in a main floor […]