The actual history of slavery in Canada

The Trudeau government isn't being honest with Canadians about the history of slavery in our country. Instead of presenting basic facts, government officials are spreading misinformation and sowing division by rewriting Canada's history.

True North's Candice Malcolm says the Trudeau government should brush up on its own history and learn the facts.

Here's the actual history of slavery in Canada.

[markgallicano]

slavery is still legal under sharia law and is being engaged in africa as we speak but you don't hear blm, antifa or trudeau or any of the politicians that call us systemic racist say to much about it .

[canadagirl]

Liberals need to "exit stage left" (permanently). Enough.

[georginaofarrell]

They should mention the thousands of years of native slavery here in Canada before the Europeans came here.

[philipsdeb]

Nice to hear the facts. Liberal politicians should all be recalled as they seem to forget the people and the country they represent. Funny though dont mind us slaving away to pay taxes to support their ivory towers. People if Canada we must get more political and loud.!

[Feta_Cheezz_Montgomery_Burns]

today there is a new kind of slavery: debt (mortgages, credit cards, car loans, credit

[JohnChalmers]

The maternal side of my family came to Ontario as freed slaves in the early 1870's. They did experience some racism many years years ago . That however did not interfere one bit in them experiencing the Canadian dream of life to it's fullest ! To gauge the extent of racism in the past one need only look to the fact that my white grandfather married a black woman(my grandmother) in small town Ontario and my father married my mother in 1964 in the same town with little real repurcussions because of it . Yes my family experienced some racism, but never anything that could be labeled systemic .

[BlackGold-fctu]

The British ended slavery world wide... except in a few countrys that still practice it outside the old empire.

[richardshort]

What you have said is _exactly_ how my Grade 8 teacher taught it, back in the 1960s.
Don't they teach Canadian history in the country anymore?

[Windfeather]

I am proud to be a descendant of a family who worked the Underground Railway to help many slaves find refuge and meaningful work here in our great country. The motto my mother always recited to her children was "Never judge a book by it's cover" and I hold that sentiment dear.

[garyclothier]

The only slavery that happened in Canada was when Canada was called New France and it only happened in Quebec

[cjryan]

it funny they dont talk about the slaves of north africa and the millions of europeans taken as slaves and that slavery is still happening in africa

[mikehudon]

How come there is no teaching of the Barbary coast slave trade?

[buckodonnghaile]

Joseph Brant kept slaves so we must change the name of Brantford to Gretzkyville.

[norton]

Thanks for this Candace. Correction Ms. McKenna, as far as the vast majority of Canadians are concerned, August 1st is not 'Emancipation Day'. It is Canada's 'Civic Holiday'.

[TheWizardonline]

It's not semantics! Canada NEVER supported slavery period... just say it "Loud and Proud" for God's sake.

[BostonPower]

Mansa Musa what's the richest man to ever live.... He was black.

[Scott-jjon]

Suprised this upload hasn't been vanished to cyber space Candice before this dissapears.

[kathndrew]

So glad you mentioned John Graves Simcoe, we celebrate Simcoe day on the first Monday of August in Ontario! Unfortunately the calendar says Civic Holiday! We have all but forgotten what this amazing man accomplished; the first in the Dominion, and it was not a popular idea since there were many indentured servants in Upper Canada and New France! Even though we in Ontario honour him, where are the parades? Why don't the Blacks in Canada celebrate that this country was the first to given them freedom? This is basically why we "old stock Canadians" are angry when we hear Black immigrants marching in the streets, mostly young people who know nothing of our history and do nothing but criticise and complain when many have no idea what their ancestors really went through to come here through the underground railroad!

[carstenjorgensen]

Additional 'honest facts'-'Upper Canada' (Ontario) abolished slavery long before the British empire did. July 9, 1793 was the date of the signing of the 'Act Against Slavery'. It was, in large part, a stepping stone for the 1834 British abolition of slavery.  Canada as we know it was founded on July 1 1867. (never slavery)

[solo]

Slavery was also common practice in Africa and a lot of the slaves were bought in Africa from Africans who were already taking slaves