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Feb 3, 2021 · (Peter Tardif/CBC) Aly Ndiaye says much of the slave history behind iconic Quebec names like D’Youville and Montcalm is unknown. That’s why he starts his tours here, at the threshold of Old...
Jan 16, 2024 · For more than 200 years, slavery was part of Canada and Quebec’s colonial nation-building. In New France alone, there were over 4,200 slaves from the 17th century until the official abolition of the institution within the British Empire in 1834. More than half of enslaved people were Indigenous, and one third were Black.
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Slavery in Quebec is a lesser-known facet of this Canadian province's history. While most people in Quebec are unfamiliar with this history, records indicate that between 1629 and 1833, there were 4,185 slaves in the territory.
- The 'Erasure of Blackness'
- An Invisible Cemetery
- Slavery Is Canada's Best-Kept Secret
- Additional Note: A Word on 'Canada'
Canada's towns, parks and universities abound with statues and street signs that have immortalized our "founding fathers." But there is no sign of the men, women and children that some of these powerful men enslaved. Small wonder then, that many of us today are unaware that Indigenous and African peoples were forced into bondage across colonial Can...
Every year the Black Coalition of Quebecorganizes a grim pilgrimage to an unmarked grave. About an hour from Montreal outside the village of Saint Armand, close to a dozen slaves are said to be buried near a large whale-shaped boulder. Little is known of the people enslaved by the Luke family — loyalists who fled the United States in the 1780s. And...
Canada has burnished its reputation as the terminal station of the Underground Railroad, a safe haven for runaway slaves. Generations of Canadians have grown up with the idea that slavery somehow stopped at the American border. And that notion is still operative, as captured by this documentary in a surprising moment when Prime Minister Paul Martin...
This award-winning documentary series chronicles slavery as it occurred "in Canada" prior to Confederation and therefore refers to colonial Canada. Since the 16th century, settlers, officials and historians have used the term "Canada" — often interchangeably with other names, from New France and British North America, to Upper Canada and Lower Cana...
Slaves operated the printing presses of Quebec’s first newspaper Quebec Gazette. Finally, it was the Loyalists who had fled the United States who ended slavery in Canada. Not because of their moral or Christian convictions, but because they associated it with the new American Republic they hated. Sir James Monk, Chief Justice of Montreal and ...
Jan 31, 2021 · However, historian Marcel Trudel estimated that in 1759, in Quebec alone, there were some 3,600 enslaved Black and Indigenous people, of whom 1,200 were Black.) Slavery occurred in the...
Jan 5, 2015 · Together, the two were united into the Province of Canada in 1840, in response to the rebellions in Lower and Upper Canada, and the Durham Report of 1839. The Act of Union established a single colony made up of Canada East (Québec) and Canada West (Ontario) governed by a single legislature.
