Emancipation Day Marks Countdown to a Project Celebrating Black Families in N.B.

Emancipation Day marks countdown to a project celebrating Black families in N.B.

Emancipation Day marks the day the Slavery Abolition Act came into effect in 1834, freeing more than 800,000 enslaved people in the British Empire, including many in Canada. This year, it also marks the countdown to the launch of the Still Here project. WATCH

Statement on Emancipation Day

Please read the following statement from Elizabeth May, MP for Saanich–Gulf Islands and Leader of the Green Party of Canada, recognising Emancipation Day: “I was proud to support the 2021 motion to establish Emancipation Day in Canada, which marks the anniversary of the coming into effect of the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act across the British Empire. Our legacy of slavery in Canada must not be sanitized. Today, nearly 200 years later, there are mo…