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B.C.’s Black pioneers’ story told in Crawford Kilian’s Go Do Some Great Thing

Most British Columbians don’t think of Salt Spring Island as a centre for Black culture in this province. But back in the late 1850s, some Black settlers asked the first governor of colonial British Columbia, James Douglas, for permission to form a colony there, according to the memoirs of long-time Salt Spring Island resident Sylvia Stark. North Vancouver author Crawford Kilian mentions this in…