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Please join us as we march together to celebrate the Charter of Rights & Freedoms.

Indigenous children at residential school, 1946

Children were often subjected to emotional and physical harm, & forced assimilation to dominant Canadian culture.

NWT Residential school

Another residential school for indigenous children in the Northwest Territories.

Chinese workers on Pacific Railway, 1881

Surviving poor conditions, lower pay, and dangerous work on the railway was the norm for early Chinese migrants.

Chinese Head Tax Certificate, Victoria, BC, 1913

Tax levied on Chinese to prevent them from entering Canada after completion of the railway.

Komagata Maru Incident, 1914

Only 24 out of 376 South Asian migrants were admitted entry due to Canadian Exclusion laws.

Japanese-Canadian internment during World War 2

Japanese-Canadians labelled "enemy aliens" and forced from their homes into crudely constructed camps during WW2.

Chinese-Canadian Veterans

Women’s Ambulance Corps Veterans. Canadian-Chinese women in the army struggled against racial discrimination, gender prejudice and less pay.

Royal Canadian Air Force Veteran, WW2

The only Canadian-Chinese woman who served in the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Martin Luther King marches

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and one of his American civil rights marches.

Tuskegee Airmen, WWII

The first African-American military pilots in the US military who experienced racial discrimination and segregation.

We Remember. Images of troubling histories such as residential schools, Chinese Head Tax, the Komagata Maru incident, and Japanese internment once wounded Canada's past. Amidst Canada's many dark moments, many brave Canadians struggled for equality and rose to inspire seeds of change in our country.

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The Charter of Rights and Freedoms has transformed Canada. Troubling images of histories such as residential schools, Chinese Head Tax, the Komagata Maru incident, and the Japanese internment once wounded Canada’s past.

From these scars, the Charter was born on April 17, 1982—a legislation that now guarantees equal rights and freedoms for all Canadian citizens, no matter their background.

Even so, discrimination and injustice persists. Our work is not done. We must march onwards to reaffirm how far we need to go.

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Let’s march for freedom.

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Sense of Place with Minelle Mahtani - Civil Rights & Freedoms March

Guest host Carol Thorbes speaks with Colonel Richard Toliver, one of the Tuskegee airmen and Don Chapman, civil rights activist, about what Canada still needs to do...

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