Black Parents Speak – Education in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Canada West
- Some black children could enroll in public school but many were forced to move to another school where only black children were allowed to go
- Canada was a place where the black slaves would come to seek refuge
- In 1840’s the Black were competing again the Irish for immigration
- The main occupation during this time in Canada West was farming
- The Black’s new the value of an education and therefore they wanted to enroll their children in schools as well
- During this time the White’s would make up excuses to why the Black’s wouldn’t have be allowed into their schools
- Although Ryerson disagreed with the way the schooling system was denying children of color, he couldn’t do anything about it because he didn’t want to seem racist
- The black residences in Canada west were persistent about getting an education for their children
- By 1865 three-quarters of blacks in Canada’s West returned back to the Unites States of America
- It was until 1964 that the Separate Schools Act was finally abolished in Canada
White Supremacy, Chinese Schooling, and School Segregation in Victoria: The Case of the Chinese Students’ Strike, 1922-1923
- In 1922 Victoria wanted to move all of the Chinese students into a different school than everyone else
- In 1922-1923 only 6 Chinese attended the public schools in Victoria compared to the 216 the year before
- Although many of these people agreed with the movement to get the Chinese out of the public school’s many disagreed and thought it was inhumane to do this to another human
- The Chinese students went on strike during this time
- Most of the Chinese students were male. This was due to the violence that occurred to the young and older female Chinese
- White supremacy took over and the Chinese were dictated as a minority and had to follow what the White’s wanted for society
- This discrimination is still prevalent in British Columbia