https://padlet.com/coverzh404/95ke988e3l15frz0 Group Member: Emilio Carlos Castellanos Cardenas, Hassan Dharrabi, Harmanpreet Singh, Chuanzi He en-us 2022-02-01 18:21:32 UTC 2022-02-04 15:30:02 UTC hello@padlet.com coverzh404 https://padlet.com/coverzh404/95ke988e3l15frz0/wish/2029593870 Mathieu da Costa
arrived in the Bay of Fundy aboard The Jonas and became the first recorded Black person in Canada’s history. DaCosta was a free man, and a skilled worker – he had come to what would become Canada from Portugal as the ship’s translator. He translated between the French and the indigenous people on the east coast, the Miꞌkmaq.]]> 2022-02-04 15:08:02 UTC https://padlet.com/coverzh404/95ke988e3l15frz0/wish/2029593870 coverzh404 https://padlet.com/coverzh404/95ke988e3l15frz0/wish/2029600186 British North America’s first enslave people. 
Arrived at Virginia- they were brought to work in the crop fields which represented the North America’s economic grow (Canada included) for more than 2 centuries]]> 2022-02-04 15:11:42 UTC https://padlet.com/coverzh404/95ke988e3l15frz0/wish/2029600186 coverzh404 https://padlet.com/coverzh404/95ke988e3l15frz0/wish/2029601212 Black loyalists’ people
When American Revolution started, the British promised freedom to any slave that fought in the British side. This was the first step to anti-slavery policy in North America. ]]> 2022-02-04 15:12:22 UTC https://padlet.com/coverzh404/95ke988e3l15frz0/wish/2029601212 coverzh404 https://padlet.com/coverzh404/95ke988e3l15frz0/wish/2029602786 John Simcoe  
He abolished slavery in Upper Canada not without resistance but eventually this policy became the foundation for all anti-slavery laws.]]> 2022-02-04 15:13:14 UTC https://padlet.com/coverzh404/95ke988e3l15frz0/wish/2029602786 coverzh404 https://padlet.com/coverzh404/95ke988e3l15frz0/wish/2029604024 By the period of 1800’s things started to change and in 1834 slavery was ended by the British empire. Blacks rejoice the end of slavery as their old dreams were about to be fulfilled. Moreover, freedom was a very big achievement for the black community as it was the end of labouring for the pittance and beginning of their own communities, houses, and places. In fertile farmlands of southwestern Ontario, historical monuments were built as a sign of freedom. Beside this, many people came in support for the black community like the Reverend William King in 1849, who was a white southerner who helped the blacks by freeing 15 slaves and brought them to Buxton where the King purchased nine thousand acres of land to start a business and to help the thousands of black families by making their houses. In addition to this, the southerner king also helped the black people by protecting their rights. This event is important in the history of blacks as it reflects that some people also came in support for them for whom they built monuments in the farmland fields of Dawn Buxton.

]]> 2022-02-04 15:13:54 UTC https://padlet.com/coverzh404/95ke988e3l15frz0/wish/2029604024 coverzh404 https://padlet.com/coverzh404/95ke988e3l15frz0/wish/2029605541 During the year 1856, British Columbia was practically empty with free western states without slavery but with uncertain future for blacks. One California group visited Victoria with the hope of finding safe place to live which ended up by founding that 400 families were immigrated in 1958 with the invitation by Governor James Douglas to Increase the population which with the time goes on increasing and ended by an inevitable conflict where black families were forced to go far into the Salt spring islands of Caribou in 1860. Willis Stark, who’s parents were among the first settlers on the salt spring island tells that his descendants were in British Columbia but was forced to go and live on the island. His parents, Lewis and Sylvia Stark lived on the island from 1860 to 1944.

]]> 2022-02-04 15:14:51 UTC https://padlet.com/coverzh404/95ke988e3l15frz0/wish/2029605541 coverzh404 https://padlet.com/coverzh404/95ke988e3l15frz0/wish/2029606463 William Hall 
William Hall was the third Canadian to win the Victoria Cross, a black man from Nova Scotian. William Hall made an outstanding contribution to the war when he continued to load and fire pounder guns at the walls. He is also famous for the black Canadians who became actively involved in the war effort during the 19th century.

]]> 2022-02-04 15:15:23 UTC https://padlet.com/coverzh404/95ke988e3l15frz0/wish/2029606463 coverzh404 https://padlet.com/coverzh404/95ke988e3l15frz0/wish/2029608029 William Hubbard
Toronto's alderman later became the city's controller and acting mayor. He has a rare success story in which racism led to a change in the government policy in 1911 that changed the entrance for black Canadians. ]]> 2022-02-04 15:16:16 UTC https://padlet.com/coverzh404/95ke988e3l15frz0/wish/2029608029 coverzh404 https://padlet.com/coverzh404/95ke988e3l15frz0/wish/2029609132 Marcus Garvey 
A change had begun with him he had gone to the states in 1916 and began to visit Canada in 1928 he’d formed the UNIA, The Universal Negro Improvement Association, and was encouraging blacks to take pride in their race in their origins and to work even harder for a better future and suddenly black society in Canada took on a new life.  ]]> 2022-02-04 15:16:54 UTC https://padlet.com/coverzh404/95ke988e3l15frz0/wish/2029609132 coverzh404 https://padlet.com/coverzh404/95ke988e3l15frz0/wish/2029610427 Black Men
One thing hadn’t changed not since the 19^th century and that was the identification of the working Black with railways. In Montreal as late as 1941 half the men in the black community reporters, it would be a great day when the breakthrough finally came into other jobs. ]]> 2022-02-04 15:17:38 UTC https://padlet.com/coverzh404/95ke988e3l15frz0/wish/2029610427