Black History Month 2013 – BC Black History Awareness Society

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Black History Month 2015

Judge Matthew Begbie rules against the Black miners of the Davis Company

In 1865 the Davis Company was formed through a merger of the all-Black Harvey-Dixon Company and the all-white Davis Company. The new […]

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Multiculturalism Day 2023

BCBHAS celebrates Canada Multiculturalism Day to honour our cultural communities. Canada Multiculturalism Day was officially June 27th but we celebrated early! “MORE […]

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Nelson Mandela becomes President of South Africa

Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) was a South African black nationalist who spent 27 years in prison for fighting against the country’s discriminatory apartheid […]