Black History Month 2018 – BC Black History Awareness Society

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. […]

Black lettering on background of pastel swirls and glitter. Left is upper torso of woman smiling, Right is book cover

An evening with author Jasmine Sealy and one of our favorite performers, Caleb Hart

An enraptured audience met and chatted with Barbadian-Canadian writer and author Jasmine Sealy. “The Island of Forgetting”, published in 2022 has received […]

Commemorative Stamp Launch for Fergie Jenkins and Carrie Best Feb 26, 2011

“Fergie” Jenkins and Carrie Best commemorative stamp launch

BC Black History Awareness Society in partnership with Canada Post, hosted this commemorative stamp launch for Ferguson Jenkins and Carrie Best. Ferguson […]

1958: BC Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (BCAACP) is founded

The BC Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (BCAACP) was founded on March 1,1958 to support people facing discrimination in education, […]