Black History Month — Victoria Rifles

  Victoria Rifles

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Video length: 0:30 minutes

A collage of archival photographs of famous African-Canadians: Anne Greenup,Mifflin Gibbs, John Ware, Esther Wellons, Elijah McCoy introduces the video.

ANNOUNCER: “Since the early beginnings of Canadian history, people of African descent have made significant contributions to the development of our great country.”  

Collage fades into an archival photograph of The Victoria Rifles military squad posing for camera with British flag overhead.

ANNOUNCER: “The Victoria Rifles, an all-black military unit, was one of British Columbia’s first military defense units…..”

A portrait of Sir James Douglas appears on screen followed by a…

ANNOUNCER: “…and was formed in 1860 by Sir James Douglas, the first black Governor of British Columbia.”

…close-up and panning shot of photograph of the Victoria Rifles military squad.

Canada Word Mark.

ANNOUNCER: “A message from the government of Canada.”

Video fades to black