
Hidden History: Canada’s First Military Hero… was Black
The first Canadien to receive this honor was William Neilson Edward Hall.
Hall, who was from Nova Scotia, was the son of a former American slave.
Learn more in this story from the Globe & Mail

The first Canadien to receive this honor was William Neilson Edward Hall.
Hall, who was from Nova Scotia, was the son of a former American slave.
Learn more in this story from the Globe & Mail


From the Creosote Journal:
“There are few external markers to show you what David Hilliard knows about certain places in Oakland. He knows where to find the bullet holes that still pockmark a house, puncture a fence railing. As Hilliard tells it, he was hiding in a house nearby, one night in 1968, shortly after the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. He listened as some 1,900 rounds were emptied by the police force.”
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