Demerara_Guy posted:Demerara_Guy posted:Undocumented immigrants get help fleeing Trump's America to Canada
Washington Post, Published: , Updated: , Filed Under: Toronto SUN, News,Canada, Toronto Sun, https://torontosun.com/news/na...ps-america-to-canadaAs they continue their efforts, the advocates draw comparisons to the stealth network of abolitionists used to help guide people who escaped to Canada in the 19th century.
Of the estimated 100,000 enslaved people who fled the American South between 1810 and 1850, about 40,000 made it to Canada after being hidden in houses and churches along the way, said Don Papson, president of the North Country Underground Railroad Museum in Keeseville, New York.
Numerous individuals, with specific reference to the slaves from the US_of_A, were hidden and brought into Canada and transported to Alberta and were safely protected in towns and villages in the northers parts.
Their descendants over time became established and numerous were/are in prominent positions in the private and public sectors.
And the vast majority, including 90% of Haitians, fleeing to Canada get deported. Not back to the USA, but back to their homelands.
As to that slave bit. Once slavery ended in the USA many of those people returned back to the USA because life in Canada was harsh and racist. Do you know that in the Maritimes there was LEGAL segregation. PS: there wasn't such segregation over the border in the USA. This means that the Maritimes was more like the Deep South.
https://www.theglobeandmail.co...ada/article32070545/
Summary of this. Canadians must spend less time looking at the racial issues of Canada and more at their own. Race is more loudly spoken of in the USA because black, Hispanic and Asian groups are larger and more able to loudly voice their concerns. Is there a Canadian Oprah?