Blk: An Origin Story
Rosie Awori (LJI) The history of Little Burgundy is colored by the story of Quebec’s Black community. It’s a story of belonging, survival and resilience, one that reaches back to the founding of a nation that for long chose to ignore the role that people of African descent have played in helping to build its foundation. They came among the first group of explorers helping to chart the lay of the land that was to become Canada then they were brought here as chattel slaves working to build and support a fledgling economy of a new nation and elevated to …