Hogan’s Alley Society wants the city to make meaningful reparations for racist policies of the past but is having a hard time getting a straight answer.
Author Crawford Kilian talks about revisiting, updating and republishing his ‘Go Do Some Great Thing.’
Olamide Olaniyan is associate editor at The Tyee. Follow him on Twitter @olapalooza. SHARES Mifflin Gibbs arrived in 1858 to become a successful retailer, real estate speculator, Victoria city councillor and builder of BC’s first railway. Crawford Kilian’s account of BC’s ‘remarkable’ Black pioneers remains foundational.
Kilian photo for The Tyee by Amy Romer.
“The climate is most beautiful; the strawberry vines and peach trees are in full blow… All the colored man wants here is ability and money. It is a God-sent land for the colored people.” Wellington Moses, a member of the Pioneer Committee quoted in Crawford Kilian’s book
A cultural renaissance is blooming in Canada, led by Black and Indigenous artists
Laila El Mugammar: At its centre is public art, literature and more. The Canada emerging is one where I am visible. By Laila El Mugammar
December 15, 2020 Joseph in front of his mural, Hope Through Ashes: A Requiem for Hogan’s Alley (Rochelle Leung)
Laila El Mugammar is a Sudanese-Canadian writer and student. Her academic and creative work maps the historic Black presence in Canada.
On Gaukel Street in Kitchener, Ont., perpendicular to city hall, a black bear greets pedestrians with watery and speculative eyes.
Makade Makwa. Near her, a frog crouches, its back glimmering and pale in the sunlight.