Toney River Federal Apology and other events will honour No. 2 Construction Battalion (Halifax, Nova Scotia) The Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia in collaboration with the Department of National Defence will be holding a series of events in Honour and Remembrance of the No. 2 Construction Battalion, beginning on July 5th, 2022, and most notably an apology from the Federal Government on July 9th.
Events to include the update of the National Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada monument in Pictou by Parks Canada, a new interpretive display at the Black Cultural Centre, and the much-anticipated National Apology by the Government of Canada. This apology will be made to the relatives and descendants of the members of No. 2 Construction Battalion that served with distinction in the First World War but faced anti-Black racism.
These events will occur one hundred and six years following the formation of the historic Battalion in 1916.
Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, 7 June 2022
About. Damn. Time. And it isn't even scratching the surface of Nova Scotia's sins against African Canadians. You know the province STILL hasn't apologized for Africville?
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