Black History Month 2012 – BC Black History Awareness Society

young bearded man standing at easel with paint brushes and palette in left hand and 1 brush in right hand

Art at the Archives

Grafton Tyler Brown in his studio at the Occidental Hotel, corner of Wharf and Johnson street, Victoria B.C.,1883. Grafton Tyler Brown is […]

“A Catalogue of Information and Sources of Information pertaining to Blacks in British Columbia”

The preface by Jesse J. Dillard Jr., President, reads, “This catalogue is the result of a summer project of the Victoria Black […]

Edsworth Searles is the first Black lawyer to be called to the bar in BC

Edsworth Searles was the first Black lawyer called to the bar in BC. Canadian born, of British West Indian parents, Edsworth graduated […]

1959: Black credit union opens in Vancouver

Housing in Vancouver was, and is, extremely difficult for Black tenants and aspiring homeowners. Leonard Lane recognized this and, in 1959, opened […]