Through a Crack In The Gate
Land of Hope in Canada’s West
As Canada’s West opened to settlement in the 1880s, a trickle of enterprising Blacks came north and were readily accepted into the pioneer community. However, when larger groups began to arrive in the early 1900s seeking to escape legal and social discrimination, they encountered a backlash, official and unofficial, and the doorway to Black immigration closed.
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