Groundbreaking new series explores Canada’s shocking, untold Black history
in four hour-long episodes that focus on communities in Nova Scotia, Ontario, British Columbia, and Quebec.The show’s narrative is helped along by familiar names: George Elliot Clarke, Lawrence Hill, Charmaine Nelson, El Jones, May Q Wong, and Stephanie Allen all help tell the stories.The show’s first episode is set in Nova Scotia, uncovering some of the myths and misconceptions about the history of Black communities on the East Coast.
“At that time teachers told us: ‘Black people used the Underground Railroad to get to Nova Scotia and then they lived happily ever after.’ That was it. It was like a real-life fairytale, when that wasn’t even close to the truth. There was no agency, no resistance in those stories. It was just this story that Black people were liberated by Canadians.”And that’s just the tip of the omission iceberg.
“The fact that James Douglas was bi-racial was very surprising, even to us. We had no idea about this stuff, no one talked about this stuff.“I didn’t know that the Black Loyalists and the Black refugees were two entirely different groups altogether. People conflate them,” added Holness.
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