The city of Toronto will mark Remembrance Day 2024 by reflecting on the 10th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan and honouring Canada's only all-Black military unit that served in WWI.
Toronto is marking 10 years since the war in Afghanistan and honouring a little-known group of Black military men from the First World War, ahead of Remembrance Day on Monday.The city of Toronto will mark Remembrance Day 2024 by reflecting on the 10th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan and honouring Canada's only all-Black military unit that served in WWI.
The city has partnered with Metrolinx to feature panels recounting significant military and peacekeeping milestones intertwined with Toronto’s past, present and future. The panels are located at the Ontario Line construction along Queen St. W. While much of Remembrance Day centres around the first and second world wars, he told CBC Toronto this year is a good time for Canadians to start reflecting on more recent events.
" need to be integrated into our national remembrance process because what we did there is part of Canadian history. It's part of Canadian culture," he said.Meanwhile on Thursday, Heritage Toronto and city officials are unveiling a new plaque to honour the only segregated, all-Black military unit in Canada's history."There was a lot of systemic racism in the enlistment process," Chris Bateman, plaques manager at Heritage Toronto, told CBC News.
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