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The first recorded Black person in Canada was Mathieu da Costa. He arrived in Nova Scotia sometime between 1605 and 1608 as a translator for the French explorer Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts. The first known Black person to live in Canada was an enslaved person from Madagascar named Olivier Le Jeune (who may have been of partial Malay ancestry).
The First Nations nutrition experiments were a series of experiments run in Canada by Department of Pensions and National Health (now Health Canada). The experiments were conducted between 1942 and 1952 using Indigenous children from residential schools in Alberta , British Columbia , Manitoba , Nova Scotia , and Ontario . [ 127 ]
The Women's Memorial March is an annual event which occurs every February 14th, in honour of the lives of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) across Canada and the United States. [1] This event is also a protest against class disparity, racism, inequality and violence.
In 1975, a museum telling the stories of African Canadians and their journeys and contributions was established in Amherstburg, Ontario, entitled the Amherstburg Freedom Museum. [101] In Atlantic Canada, the Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia was established in Cherry Brook.
Under its regulations, the law stipulated that all Chinese people entering Canada must first pay a CA$50 fee, [7] [8] later referred to as a head tax. This was amended in 1887, [ 9 ] 1892, [ 10 ] and 1900, [ 11 ] with the fee increasing to CA$100 in 1901 and later to its maximum of CA$500 in 1903, representing a two-year salary of an immigrant ...
The Book of Negroes is a document created by Brigadier General Samuel Birch, under the direction of Sir Guy Carleton, that records names and descriptions of 3,000 Black Loyalists, enslaved Africans who escaped to the British lines during the American Revolution and were evacuated to points in Nova Scotia as free people of colour.
January 5 – The domed roof of BC Place Stadium in Vancouver collapses.; January 11 – A major blizzard rips through Central Saskatchewan.; January – The Quebec town of Hérouxville received international attention when its town council passed controversial measures concerning practices which the residents deemed unsuitable for life in Hérouxville for potential new immigrants, despite the ...
Stonechild's body was found on November 29, 1990, in a field outside Saskatoon, which led to an Inquiry Into Matters Relating to the Death of Neil Stonechild. [7] [8] On the night of Stonechild's disappearance, five days prior on November 24, 1990, the temperature reached −28.1 °C (−18.6 °F). [9]