Black History Month 2016 – BC Black History Awareness Society

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 […]

head shot senior black man, suit and patterned tie, looking directly into the camera

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 […]

man in suit standing with arms folded and smiling in US president office, american flag and other regalia in background

Barack Hussein Obama is sworn in as the 44th President of the U.S.

Barack Obama was elected President on November 4, 2008, becoming the first African American to hold this office. He was re-elected in […]

July 4, 1886: First scheduled passenger train to BC arrives at the Port Moody terminal

150 passengers arrived on board the train of an engine, tender, baggage car, express and mail car, two emigrant sleepers, one first-class, […]