United Against Racism - Remembering August 1st

Slavery ended in Canada on August 1, 1834.

Many Canadians view slavery as something that happened in the United States of America from the arrival of the first slave ships in 1619 until the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, but fail to understand that the buying, selling, and enslavement of Black and Indigenous people went on for about 200 years in our own country (beginning with the arrival of Olivier le Jeune in 1628 to New France and ending with the Slavery Abolition Act, August 1, 1834). 

Slavery was formally abolished in Canada on August 1, 1834 but the injustices persisted long after that. Here are some reasons why we should remember this historic date today.