PART 1 - FACING THE CHANGE - CANADA AND THE INTERNATIONAL DECADE

Second, it encourages the world to recognize the memory of the victims of the slave trade, slavery, and colonialism – and The special days, years, and decades that the UN proclaims are their descendants – through the establishment of sites of indeed intended to highlight concerns and raise awareness memory testifying to this past, and to encourage the inter- about major global challenges. [...] This barbarity and denial of humanity The objectives of the International Decade for People of African places millions of people of African descent among the poorest Descent: Responsibility, Justice and Development speak to us of the poor, on the bottom rungs of many countries. [...] 10 THE INTERNATIONAL DECADE FOR PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT Proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations, the International Decade for People of African Descent (2015–2024) is a historic opportunity to address and redress the remaining legacy of centuries of the abhorrent slave trade, and the ongoing systematic discrimination and barriers that stand in the way of recognition, justice and. [...] Between the first peoples whose unceded territory, Mi’kma’ki, was seized and colonized by the The first two editions of the National Black Canadians French and the English; the Acadians and their resistance to Summit, in Toronto in 2017 and in Ottawa in 2019, enabled English conquest; and the establishment of the oldest black thousands of participants from across the country to exam- community in. [...] As the lieutenant-governor of the province, Lord Dalhousie was empowered by Lord Bathurst to use the money from In 1863, at the heights of the American Civil War, and soon the Castine fund to help in the settlement of settlers, which after the death of the famous Confederate general Stonewall included the Black Refugees.