by Fran | Sep 20, 2018 | Pioneers 1900 -Present, Stories
The first black person to be named to the B.C. Supreme Court; is recognized as having made significant contributions to judicial and legal education contributing to the development of the law in British Columbia and Canada. Career:1966 Graduated Peter A. Allard School...
by Fran | Aug 2, 2018 | Earliest Pioneers (1858-1899), Stories
In February 1860 he was the 1st Black to sit as a juror in B.C. Peter Lester moved with his wife Nancy and five children to San Francisco from Philadelphia in 1850, where he was appalled to find that slavery was still a fact of life in the free state of California. In...