Bill M-36 is unanimously passed in the House of Commons to officially recognize August 1 as Emancipation Day across Canada

specimen of Canadian $10.00 bank note with Viola Desmond

Viola Desmond – First Black Canadian on Canadian currency

In 1946 she challenged racial segregation by refusing to leave a whites-only area of the Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. […]

Speaker Paul Winn - The Black Experience in Canada

The Black Presence in Canada

Paul Winn is a Lawyer, Staff Liaison with the Multiculturalism Committee in the BC Law Society and Senior Staff at the Canadian […]

Poster with images, dates, black text on white background BHM 2019

Black History Month 2019

1998: “Visible Minority” is used as a departmental standard for Statistics Canada

The Employment Equity Act defines visible minorities as “persons, other than Aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour.” […]