Mifflin Wistar Gibbs

by daniel | Jun 1, 2018

“Person of National Historic Significance” designated by the Government of Canada in 2009. The Government of Canada is proud to honour a man who worked tirelessly for the local Black community as a politician, businessman, and defender of human rights...

Rosemary Brown

by Fran | Sep 18, 2018

Politician, feminist, writer, educator, lecturer and mother, Rosemary Brown has contributed much to B.C. and Canada including being the 1st black woman elected to a Canadian Provincial Legislature (B.C) and running for the leadership of the Federal NDP Party in 1975....

Emery Barnes

by blackhistory | Jul 26, 2018

Emery Barnes was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in 1972 as the first member in the double-member riding of Vancouver Centre, along with former MLA Gary Lauk. He and Lauk were re-elected in 1975, 1979 and 1983. In 1986 after Lauk’s retirement,...

Sir James Douglas

by blackhistory | Jun 15, 2018

James Douglas was born in Demerara, British Guiana, which is now Guyana, in 1803. His father was a Scottish merchant with commercial interests in sugar plantations, his mother was a free woman of Barbadian-Creole ancestry. In the records of the Hudson’s Bay Company...