Mifflin Wistar Gibbs Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he moved to California as a young man during the Gold Rush. Angered by discriminatory laws passed in 1858, he and several hundred other American blacks moved that year to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, where he worked for ten...
I was not looking for “Lotus land” when eight years ago we retired from the lively endless adventures of being international civil servants to the calm enhancement of Vancouver Island. But under the calmness and evergreen serenity we discovered an almost insurmountable mountain of ‘status...
The Harlem Renaissance, or the New Negro Movement, impacted urban centers throughout the United States. Across the cultural spectrum (literature, drama, music, visual art, dance) and also in the realm of social thought (sociology, historiography, philosophy), artists and intellectuals found new ways to explore the historical...
The arrival of blacks in Canada is a very interesting topic. In 1606 Mattieu DaCosta, a translator for a European ship named Jonas was first black man that was recorded in Canada’s history(he was from Portugal). His job was to translate the language of the...
