Emancipation

• Kingston, Ont., black-owned businesses brave rain to recognize emancipation

  Despite dreary weather conditions, Kingston's black business owners gathered at city hall to recognize emancipation and to uplift each other.

  Canada

  Jul 29, 2023
  
• Sask. museum says Juneteenth is an opportunity to educate

  Saskatchewan's Carol LaFayette-Boyd said Juneteenth is important to Black history: 'When people are educated, they may be better able to not make the same kind of mistakes.'

  Canada

  Jun 19, 2023
  
• Advertisement
• B.C. proclaims Aug. 1 as Emancipation Day to mark official end of slavery in Canada

  When the Abolition of Slavery Act came into force in 1834, it freed an estimated 800,000 slaves of African descent across British-controlled territories.

  Canada

  Aug 1, 2021
• Advertisement
• Dozens march in Toronto to commemorate Emancipation Day

  Calls to eliminate anti-Black racism could be heard throughout downtown Toronto on Saturday as demonstrators took to the streets to mark Emancipation Day.

  Canada

  Aug 1, 2020