Re: Jamaica Olympics Central
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Tropicana, your stats speak to number of black immigrants. that's a different stat from the number of black Canadians. Before the large West Indian migration, Canada had significant numbers of black people who were descendants of slaves in the Loyalist movement and from the underground railroad. Nova Scotia's black community was is large and well-established (tho it had its proportion of descendants of maroons from Jamaica). Southern Ontario also had large "indigenous" black communities that endure to today.
black immigration i dont believe has overtaken the number of black canadians who were here before. </div></div>
It has...long ago and honestly, I am much too busy to go dig up links to prove what is a well known fact.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Tropicana, your stats speak to number of black immigrants. that's a different stat from the number of black Canadians. Before the large West Indian migration, Canada had significant numbers of black people who were descendants of slaves in the Loyalist movement and from the underground railroad. Nova Scotia's black community was is large and well-established (tho it had its proportion of descendants of maroons from Jamaica). Southern Ontario also had large "indigenous" black communities that endure to today.
black immigration i dont believe has overtaken the number of black canadians who were here before. </div></div>
It has...long ago and honestly, I am much too busy to go dig up links to prove what is a well known fact.
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