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“Canadians take great pride in being a tolerant society, but take it from me, my black colleagues and members of my family, our struggle for equality has been long and hard fought, and it’s not over yet. For example, few Canadians know that slavery thrived in Canada for almost 200 years in tandem with its dramatic rise south of the border. This is largely because very few Canadian history textbooks ever mention this dark chapter.
Most Canadians also don’t know that segregation remained the order of the day for blacks in Canada during much of the 20th century. During the First World War, black men were denied the opportunity of serving their country in the regular army; they were relegated to a special construction battalion. Black women were not allowed to train as nurses alongside white women until the Toronto ***** Veterans Association and the Nova Scotia Association for the Advancement of Coloured People put pressure on nursing schools in the late 1940s. In Ontario, the last segregated school only closed its doors in 1965. And as late as 1968, black people were denied the right of burial in some Nova Scotia cemeteries.”

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