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NotANeocon

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7. I would suspect that was the Beothuk.

Reply to applegrove (Reply #5)

Sun Aug 1, 2021, 07:35 PM

Aug 2021

The incident is indeed a genocide but since it happened in 1500 Newfoundland - which was not at the time a part of Canada it would be fine to teach it as incidental history in 1970s Upper Canada despite the atrocity.

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Canadians have a lot to learn about this country's history of slavery, experts say [View all] Spazito Aug 2021 OP

I read the CBC news every day and one of the daily features is "The Black Experience In abqtommy Aug 2021 #1

You're welcome! Spazito Aug 2021 #2

I really get so fed up with this bullshit version of "history". NotANeocon Aug 2021 #3

The only difference between the US and Canada during the slave holding days of both... Spazito Aug 2021 #4

SO name one of those Canadian Plantations" NotANeocon Aug 2021 #6

In Canada, it was farming... Spazito Aug 2021 #9

My argument is also withthe CBC at this point. NotANeocon Aug 2021 #11

You must have missed the part in the article about the beating of the young female... Spazito Aug 2021 #12

This is also anecdotal - NotANeocon Aug 2021 #13

Wow... Spazito Aug 2021 #14

Learnt not a bit about slavery in Canada in French immersion in the 1970s. Indigenous applegrove Aug 2021 #5

I would suspect that was the Beothuk. NotANeocon Aug 2021 #7

No there was film and cannons. I don't know if it was a docudrama. applegrove Aug 2021 #8

Probably a National Film Board film NotANeocon Aug 2021 #10

Something like that. applegrove Aug 2021 #15