By Shana L. Calixte | Posted: February 28, 2005
If you are looking for an event or just some great reading material from your area of the country to keep alive the importance of Black History Month and the multicultural spirit of Canada, take a look at some of these educational and entertaining events and web projects happening across Canada.
National
[web/event] International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. - March 21
Every year, to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, numerous activities aiming to raise public awareness on the issue of racism take place across Canada. The Racism. Stop It National Video Competition is one of the means by which the federal government leads the fight against racism and mobilizes thousands of youth across Canada to rise up and take a stand against racism.
[web] Canadian Race Relations – Black History Month
This site was constructed in hopes that readers will take the time to explore the various links and events as well as underline the work of the many wonderful organizations dedicated to raising awareness around Black History Month.
[web] Black History Month at Canadian Heritage
Every year Canadians are invited to take part in the festivities and events that honour the legacy of Black Canadians, past and present, during Black History Month.
Alberta
Edmonton
[event] NBCC Black History Month - Awards Banquet
Saturday March 12, 2005
Featuring special guest speaker:
Prof. Tony Martin professor of Africana studies at Wellesley College in Boston. This year promises to be very provocative and enlightening!
Location: Chateau Louis
[web] Black Immigrants
Amongst southern Alberta's early ranchers was a Black American immigrant named John Ware. Born in 1845 in South Carolina, Ware spent his youth in slavery. Freed at the end of the American Civil War, he drifted to Texas, where he had become an experienced cowhand by 1870. In 1882, he was hired to drive 3,000 cattle from Montana to the North West Cattle Company ranch, located southwest of Calgary.
[web] Black Settlers Come to Alberta
Tom Spencer, Millarville, Alberta. Although black settlers came to Alberta in relatively small numbers, their history in the province is a unique and courageous one.
British Columbia
[web] Black History and Cultural Society of BC
In a world so given to fashion trends, where everything is standardized and cloned, where culture tends to become a commodity that is packaged and can be thrown away after due consumption, the Black Historical and Cultural Society of British Columbia would like, in a modest way, keep alive the memories of the Blacks that lived here and record the history of the elders among us, and promote what is authentic in the culture and heritage of the Black British Columbians.
[web] B.C. Black History Awareness Society
Vancouver
[event] Dance Allsorts Performance: Eric Malapad and the Freeform Tribe
March 13, 2005, 2-4pm
Hip hop, street dancing and latin-infused rhythms with Eric Malapad and the Freeform Tribe.
Pay-What-You-Can ($5 suggested donation)
Roundhouse Performance Centre
181 Roundhouse Mews (Davie & Pacific), Vancouver, V6Z 2W3
Telephone: 604-713-1800 Fax: 60-713-1813
[event] Annual Caribbean Days Festival and Multicultural Parade
Saturday, July 23rd - Sunday, July 24th, 2005
Each July, the Trinidad & Tobago Cultural Society of BC presents the Caribbean Days Festival. This event draws tens of thousands of exuberant fun-lovers to North Vancouver for a weekend of parading, dining and dancing in the sunshine.
Manitoba
Winnipeg
[event] Leadership Training Workshop
11:00 a.m, Jamaican Association Centre, 1098 Winnipeg Avenue
Saturday, March 5
[event] Annual Community Awards Banquet
From 6:00 pm, Jamaican Association Centre, 1098 Winnipeg Ave.
Saturday, March 05
New Brunswick
[web] Black Loyalist Heritage Society
The Black Loyalist Heritage Society is committed to discovering, interpreting, safeguarding and promoting the history and heritage of the Black Loyalists.
[web] Prude Inc. (Pride of Race, Unity, Dignity, through Education)
PRUDE INC. was incorporated in the city of Saint John, New Brunswick in 1981. The organization is dedicated to the full participation of the Black Community and other multicultural communities in the social, cultural and economic fabric of mainstream New Brunswick life.
[web] Black History in Saint John and New Brunswick
As part of the British Empire, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia had legalized slavery from as early as 1767. However, the first sizable group of blacks to the Maritimes arrived as a result of the Loyalist immigration following the defeat of the British by the Americans in 1781. Three thousand free blacks or former slaves who had fought on the side of the British during the American Revolutionary War earned the right to passage to Nova Scotia and they arrived in 1783. In addition to this group, 1232 came as slaves to white owners.
Nova Scotia
[event/web] Black Heritage Tours Inc.
These tours will take you to visit many exciting sites in the Black Community. Sites including the "one of a kind" Black Culture Center, located in one of the oldest Black Communities in Nova Scotia. Other sites include: the location of the Maroon Hall and the tombstone commemorating the lives of the Jamaican Maroons; Black Churches and communities where connections are presently being made with descendants of the Underground railroad, Black Loyalists and Refugees. All tours are narrated by trained and informed tour guides. Our main aim is to share a rich culture and heritage with you, that has never been told. Black Heritage Tours is owned and operated by multi-generation African Black Nova Scotians.
To book your trip with us please contact:
Carolyn Thomas, President, Sr. Consultant
(902) 462-2011 Tel/fax or (902) 462-4495
2032 Highway #7
East Preston, Nova Scotia
B2Z 1G1
[web] Remembering Black Loyalists, Black Communities in Nova Scotia
Between 1783 and 1785, more than 3000 Black persons came to Nova Scotia as a direct result of the American Revolution. They came from slavery and war to take control of their lives, making choices within the limits they faced. More than two centuries later, descendants of the Black Loyalists are calling to the spirits of their ancestors and discovering the stories of their struggles and triumphs. Meet some of the courageous men and women who founded two Nova Scotian Black Loyalist communities, Birchtown and Tracadie in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
[web] Black History Month Association
The Black History Month Association is a society dedicated to the development and popularization of African Heritage Month, concentrated in- but not limited to-the Halifax/Dartmouth Metropolitan Area. The Association is open to ALL people and coordinates activities that promote the history, culture and accomplishments of Africans world wide.
[web] Africville: Expropriating Nova Scotia's blacks
Learn more about the history of Africville.
Ontario
[web] Ontario Black History Society Archives
People, places, oral history, video and audio clips.
Learn about black Canadians through history.
[web] Ontario's Underground Railroad
Ontario’s Underground Railroad traces the perilous path of the 19th century Blacks as they fled to the sanctuary of the North along the silent and secret tracks of the famous Underground Railroad.
Owen Sound
[web] Owen Sound Black History
From about 1830 to the end of the American Civil War, escaped slaves made their way across the Canada-US border via the Underground Railroad. Many headed for the Village of Sydenham (Owen Sound), the last terminal of the Railroad and settled here, finding work and raising families. It is only recently that the contribution of these early settlers to the City’s development and growth has begun to be acknowledged.
Buxton
[web] Buxton National Historic Site and Museum
The history of the Buxton Settlement and the surrounding area is rich with stories of the Underground Railroad and the successes of our early settlers in the community they built. The people of this community have proudly maintained their history throughout the years by telling the story to all who would listen. The task of preserving it is the reason for the establishment and remains the primary focus of the Buxton Historic Site& Museum.
Toronto
[event] The Black Cultural Heritage Program
For elementary school students. Takes place Saturdays until June, 9 a.m. to noon. Cost $25. For info call 905-819-8361.
[event] 6th Annual Black History Month Gala (in conjunction with the first YUBSA “Black Voices” conference)
March 6, 2005
Jamaican Canadian Association Centre
995 Arrow Street
Presented by: York University Students' Alliance
Contact: (416) 736-2100 Ext. 60272
[event] Knowledge Bookstore makes reading affordable
FLAVA MONDAYS Tantalize your taste buds with our wide assortment of fiction titles offered at discount prices.
TOTS & TEENS TUESDAYS Stimulate the mind of our future generation, with our large selection of children’s titles at truly low prices.
WAKE-UP WEDNESDAYS Awaken your mind while taking advantage of our great savings on
non-fiction titles.
Ottawa
[event] Capital Slam
Friday, March 11th, 2005
Doors open @ 8 pm, show @ 8:30 pm
featuring local singer/songwriter and youth choir director Sonia Ndongmo
with a showcase of selected local poetic women
Universe City Lounge @ the Agora Bookstore
145 Besserer Street
Kingston
[event]Exhibit of Metalwork of West Africa
Location: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, University Avenue at Bader Lane , Kingston
Organization: African Gallery, Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Date: From December 14, 2004 to July 31, 2005
Description: A selection of West African metalwork from the Justin and Elisabeth Lang collection
Prince Edward Island
Aerial views of Charlottetown Prince Edward Island showing area once known as the Bog, home to the African Canadian community of the nineteenth century. The Bog School was near Beaconsfield, designed by Robert Harris' brother, the architect. Robert Harris decorated the interior of the Chapel of Ease, the church attended by the residents of the Bog.
Québec
[web] The Black Community in the History of Québec and Canada
This project on the presence of the Black community in Québec and Canada had its genesis in a request by a class of young secondary school students who were studying Black History at the Da Costa Hall summer school in July 1993. These eager students of Mrs. Junia Wilson questioned the general absence of Blacks from the school textbooks.
[web] Black Studies Centre
For well over 20 years, the Black Studies Centre (BSC) has been providing a wide range of services to the Montreal community and to its various institutions.
Gatineau
[event] Exposition Encre Noire / Black Ink Exhibition
February 22 to March 5, 2005
Location: Galerie Jacques Viger
39 Leduc Street
Presented by: Canadian Heritage-Multiculturalism in partnerships with Assembly of African-Canadian (AAC)
Travelling Exhibition on Black writers, entitled Black Ink, for presentation in cities across Canada. Black Ink/Encre Noire presents the wealth and variety of Black literature
Contact: John Dennison: (819) 953-3330
Louise Mascola-Lessard: (514) 283-5659
Montréal
[event] Exhibit
January 28, 2005 to March 6, 2005
Exposition room of the library. Maison de la culture Rivière-des-prairies, 9001 Boul.
Saskatchewan
[web] Amber Valley – Early Black Settlement
Between one thousand and fifteen hundred Blacks came to Canada, settling in Saskatchewan and Alberta, attracted by the image of “free lands [in Canada] and also that everyone had the right to vote and was a free man.”
[web] Black History Month Celebrated
The month of February is Black History Month (or as some prefer to call it, African Heritage Month), and Regina has been extremely busy celebrating and reflecting.
Image, "Tribute to the Rainbow" features author Mairuth Sarsfield (top-left), Senator Donald Oliver (top-right), Judge Pamela Appelt (bottom-left), as well as Judge and human rights advocate Stanley G. Grizzle. The 11th annual official Black History Month Poster is availabe from Exodus images.
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