{"id":8145,"date":"2022-07-06T10:06:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T13:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tridentnewspaper.com\/?p=8145"},"modified":"2022-07-06T10:07:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T13:07:06","slug":"national-apology-to-black-battalion-carries-significance-for-all-canadians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tridentnewspaper.com\/fr\/national-apology-to-black-battalion-carries-significance-for-all-canadians\/","title":{"rendered":"National apology to Black Battalion carries significance for all Canadians"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8146\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8146\" style=\"width: 2299px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8146\" src=\"https:\/\/tridentnewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Black-Battalion-apology-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2299\" height=\"1026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tridentnewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Black-Battalion-apology-1-1.jpg 2299w, https:\/\/tridentnewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Black-Battalion-apology-1-1-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tridentnewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Black-Battalion-apology-1-1-1024x457.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tridentnewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Black-Battalion-apology-1-1-768x343.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tridentnewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Black-Battalion-apology-1-1-1536x685.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tridentnewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Black-Battalion-apology-1-1-2048x914.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/tridentnewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Black-Battalion-apology-1-1-650x290.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2299px) 100vw, 2299px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The No.2 Construction Battalion, pictured here, was an all-black unit, based out of Nova Scotia, that served during the First World War.<br \/>BLACK CULTURAL CENTRE FOR NOVA SCOTIA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><b>National apology to Black Battalion carries significance for all Canadians<\/b><\/h3>\n<p class=\" translation-block\"><b>Par Joanie Veitch,<br>\n<\/b>\u00c9quipe du trident<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On July 9, the Government of Canada will make a formal apology for the mistreatment of the No. 2 Construction Battalion \u2014 Canada\u2019s only all Black unit to serve during the First World War \u2014 in Truro, NS, on the same grounds where the members of the \u201cBlack Battalion\u201d trained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In preparation for that historic event, the Maritime Forces Atlantic (MARLANT) Defence Visible Minority Advisory Group (DVMAG) hosted an afternoon presentation at the Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, including a tour of the Centre\u2019s exhibit on the battalion and a talk by Douglas Ruck, a labour and human rights lawyer and son of the late senator Calvin Ruck, who wrote a book on the No. 2 Construction Battalion.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8147\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8147\" style=\"width: 341px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8147\" src=\"https:\/\/tridentnewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Black-Battalion-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"341\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tridentnewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Black-Battalion-1.jpeg 1549w, https:\/\/tridentnewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Black-Battalion-1-233x300.jpeg 233w, https:\/\/tridentnewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Black-Battalion-1-797x1024.jpeg 797w, https:\/\/tridentnewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Black-Battalion-1-768x987.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/tridentnewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Black-Battalion-1-1195x1536.jpeg 1195w, https:\/\/tridentnewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Black-Battalion-1-650x835.jpeg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8147\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, BGen Paul Peyton, Commander 5th Canadian Division, Mr, Douglas Ruck, and Capt(N) Sean Williams, CFB Halifax Base Commander, at the Black Cultural Centre For Nova Scotia in Cherry Brook.<br \/>5TH CANADIAN DIVISION<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis apology is important, it marks an important point in history\u2026 this is not just Black history, it\u2019s Canadian history,\u201d said Douglas Ruck.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the First World War broke out in 1914, hundreds of Black men were ready to sign up. While the recruiting slogan was \u201cone mind, one heart\u201d, the reality those men met at the recruiting stations told a different story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt soon became obvious that they also wanted men to be of one colour\u2026 it was a white man\u2019s war,\u201d Ruck said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The men persisted and finally, on July 5, 1916, the No. 2 Construction Battalion was established in Pictou, NS. The unit was moved to\u00a0Truro for training and by the time the battalion set sail for Europe from Halifax \u2014 on March 28, 1917 on the SS Southland \u2014 more than 600 Black men had volunteered for service. Most of the volunteers were from Nova Scotia although the battalion also had recruits from Ontario and Western Canada, the United States, and even some from the British West Indies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deployed under the command of white officers, the No. 2 Construction Battalion was a non-combatant unit and provided a support role, such as digging trenches, repairing railways and establishing logging roads.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Members of the unit endured racism at every step of the way, Ruck said, and when they returned home, their efforts were largely ignored, with the exception of a commemorative plaque placed in the Ontario legislature in 1920. \u201cThey came back to obscurity and would have been forgotten if not for my father\u2019s book.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ruck\u2019s father, Calvin Ruck, first heard about the battalion when he was working as a railway porter and saw some of the other Black porters wearing a lapel pin, denoting them as members of the No. 2 Construction Battalion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMy father was a man who loved history and he made up his mind at that point that he would someday set down their story. He was determined,\u201d Ruck said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Work and family obligations meant it would take him a few decades, but in 1987, after years of interviewing members of the battalion and their families, Calvin Ruck published The Black Battalion 1916-1920: Canada&#8217;s Best Kept Military Secret. The book marked a turning point in the battalion getting some much-deserved recognition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On July 4, 1992, the creation of the Black Battalion was recognized as a national historic event, and in 1993 a granite monument commemorating the unit was erected in Pictou, NS, where the battalion was first established.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After it was announced in March 2021 that Canada would make an official apology\u00a0to the relatives and descendants of the members of No. 2 Construction Battalion, the National Apology Advisory Committee \u2014 created by the Black Cultural Centre in partnership with the federal government \u2014 began meeting with people from across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe goal is to make this wrong\u2026 right, as best as we possibly can,\u201d Ruck said. \u201cThis apology is a significant event. For all of us, every Canadian.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The national apology will be held on July 9 in Truro. On July 7, a new interpretive display will be opened at the Black Cultural Centre, in Cherry Brook, NS. Both events will also be streamed online at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.no2-cef.ca\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">www.no2-cef.ca<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National apology to Black Battalion carries significance for all Canadians By Joanie Veitch, Trident Staff On July 9, the Government of Canada will make a formal apology for the mistreatment of the No. 2 Construction Battalion \u2014 Canada\u2019s only all Black unit to serve during the First World War \u2014 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