Black History Month 2019 – BC Black History Awareness Society

Statistics Canada: “Diversity of the Black population in Canada: An Overview”. Release date: February 27, 2019

Statistics Canada reported from the 2016 census that close to 1.2 million people in Canada self-identified as Black. Findings included that: • […]

July 20, 1871: British Columbia becomes the sixth province to join Confederation

By 1871, the federal government of Canada finally promised to build a railway to British Columbia. However the railway was not completed […]

BC Black History Awareness Society is registered as a BC Society

The success of the Black History Month 1994 event by the Special Event Advisory Committee working with the Royal BC Museum and […]

outside in park setting, woman crouching on right side/front facing 2 large graffiti works on plywood, applying finishing touches bottom right corner

Graffiti Workshop

This two-day Graffiti Workshop, on August 16 and 17, 2021 brought together BIPOC professional artists and youth from around Lekwungen Territory. The […]