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One of many formerly enslaved Black people who left the U.S. to make the Prairies home, John Ware was one of Alberta s most influential cattle ranchers at the turn of the 19th century. Laila El Mugammar Updated
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The early settlements of Western Canada I constructed in my imagination have always been white. In history textbooks, the pioneers cattle ranching and churning butter were always illustrated as white people, homesteading a vast, seemingly endless expanse of violently emptied frontier land. I had an idea of why that might be: two years ago, at the Halifax branch of Library and Archives Canada, I examined a letter from an African-American sharecropper to a white minister. Expressing that he was no longer interested in settling in Western Canada, the sharecropper thanked the minister for alerting him that
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Feb 7, 2021 9:56 AM
Saint John Newcomers Centre s first Black History month screening, Kenbe la, jusqu à la victoire (Kenbe La, Until We Win) (submitted)
The Saint John Newcomers Centre hosted its first viewing party of films celebrating black culture on Zoom in honor of Black History Month on Friday.
The films will be streamed every Friday throughout February and alternate between in French and English-language audio, with respective subtitles, in support of the Newcomer Centre’s Francophone partners ARCf Saint-Jean, the Francophone School District South and Le Réseau en immigration francophone du Nouveau-Brunswick.
“The majority of the Black History Month events are happening in English so we thought it would be a great opportunity to highlight some of the Francophone films that are out there that highlight Black culture,” says Senior Communications Specialist Emily MacMackin.