https://padlet.com/rkdiqleldh212/y1uhuloxr9gjzojb Eden Park, Gureak Virk, Laith Alquran, Ethan Carlton en-us 2023-09-26 18:32:13 UTC 2023-11-24 19:42:10 UTC hello@padlet.com rkdiqleldh212 https://padlet.com/rkdiqleldh212/y1uhuloxr9gjzojb/wish/2721895802 Mathieu daCosta 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.]]> 2023-09-26 19:44:48 UTC https://padlet.com/rkdiqleldh212/y1uhuloxr9gjzojb/wish/2721895802 https://padlet.com/rkdiqleldh212/y1uhuloxr9gjzojb/wish/2722053611 The Indians enslaved the arrival tribes and sold some of them as slave for colonists. They used them for construction drudgery like new buildings and roads. ]]> 2023-09-26 23:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/rkdiqleldh212/y1uhuloxr9gjzojb/wish/2722053611 https://padlet.com/rkdiqleldh212/y1uhuloxr9gjzojb/wish/2722059141 there was a Black woman named Angélique in Montreal. She was accused of arson in the Montreal merchant district, found guilty, subjected to torture, and eventually sentenced to execution by hanging. Later, this story became a historic event symbolizing Black resistance and freedom.]]> 2023-09-26 23:16:21 UTC https://padlet.com/rkdiqleldh212/y1uhuloxr9gjzojb/wish/2722059141 https://padlet.com/rkdiqleldh212/y1uhuloxr9gjzojb/wish/2722068475 the Slavery Abolition Act was enacted in Upper Canada, Ontario. This recognized slavery as a legally and socially accepted institution for Black individuals. It also prohibited the importation of new slaves contributing to a growing abolitionist sentiment.]]> 2023-09-26 23:30:20 UTC https://padlet.com/rkdiqleldh212/y1uhuloxr9gjzojb/wish/2722068475 https://padlet.com/rkdiqleldh212/y1uhuloxr9gjzojb/wish/2722095749 The British kept their promise for black loyalists for a lands in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. 1500 of white people with their slaves got their lands. However, 3500 of black loyalists third of them got a few acers in poor lands and the rest nothing. That forced them to tenant farming and work as laborer for a cheap wage. 
Boston King was a former slave and black loyalist, who gained freedom from the American Revolutionary War. He immigrated to Sierra Leon after he got a help from a group of whites in London. He invited the black loyalist to move in Sierra Leon and found their freedom. ]]> 2023-09-27 00:02:45 UTC https://padlet.com/rkdiqleldh212/y1uhuloxr9gjzojb/wish/2722095749 https://padlet.com/rkdiqleldh212/y1uhuloxr9gjzojb/wish/2724890776 A group of black people with some Indian blood from Oklahoma Creek arrived in Alberta. Ottawa heard from one of it's immigration inspectors who reported "the mixed race has raised the lower and more harmless instincts of the Negro but only to a more brutal level and with a combination he thus becomes a most undesirable person." This then lead to the creation of a policy which allowed an "American Negro" to be barred entry to Canada on the grounds that they could not become adopted to the rigorous northern climate and consequently might become a public charge. This was the first time racism gave birth to an official national policy. ]]> 2023-09-28 15:39:26 UTC https://padlet.com/rkdiqleldh212/y1uhuloxr9gjzojb/wish/2724890776 https://padlet.com/rkdiqleldh212/y1uhuloxr9gjzojb/wish/2724939062 Marcus Garvey came to Canada in 1928  and formed the UNIA, the Universal Negro Improvement Association, and was encouraging blacks to take pride in their race, their origins, and to work harder for a better future. He also organized a group that would do the same work as the red cross but with a black cross instead, this was but one of the groups that started to spring up all over Canada. The black people were beginning to no longer be ashamed of their race and origins and were starting to take pride in it instead.]]> 2023-09-28 16:11:58 UTC https://padlet.com/rkdiqleldh212/y1uhuloxr9gjzojb/wish/2724939062 https://padlet.com/rkdiqleldh212/y1uhuloxr9gjzojb/wish/2726257955 At the invitation of the colony's (Victoria) governor James Douglas, 400 hundred families immigrated as part of one of his plans to build up the population. Immigrants here were free, educated, and allowed the opportunities to enter politics which they were prevented from doing prior to this. For example in 1860, Victoria's only defense force was the pioneer rifles in which every male was black. ]]> 2023-09-29 15:46:39 UTC https://padlet.com/rkdiqleldh212/y1uhuloxr9gjzojb/wish/2726257955 https://padlet.com/rkdiqleldh212/y1uhuloxr9gjzojb/wish/2726260372 Willis and Sylvia Stark pioneered on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, their family was one of the first to settle here and their descendants still reside in British Columbia. Sylvia lived till 1944 when she told her children stories of the Pacific wilderness. These stories are still being told to this day, detailing their hardship and struggles as one of the first settlers here. ]]> 2023-09-29 15:48:27 UTC https://padlet.com/rkdiqleldh212/y1uhuloxr9gjzojb/wish/2726260372 https://padlet.com/rkdiqleldh212/y1uhuloxr9gjzojb/wish/2726261655 John Ware was an ex-slave turned cowboy, believed to be the first to bring Texas longhorns to current-day Alberta. This happened when he rode his horse across the border on September 25th, 1882. He passed away on September 12th, 1905, when his horse crashed and he was pinned underneath. He is a part of Canadian history due to his skilled horsemanship and skills related to cattle.]]> 2023-09-29 15:49:29 UTC https://padlet.com/rkdiqleldh212/y1uhuloxr9gjzojb/wish/2726261655