Sunday February 1st – Join us for a joyful gathering. Topic: BC Black History
1110 Hillside Ave.
Speaker: The story of John Craven Jones, read by Leigh Waters
In 1859 the Governor of BC invited a group of Black people in San Francisco to come to BC and receive a free grant of land. John Craven Jones took up a parcel of land on Saltspring Island. Having neither school house nor teacher there, John began teaching at two locations on Saltspring. He taught 6 days a week and spent one day working on his wild land to meet the government requirement of improving the property within two years of its acquisition. Indigenous elders of our area tell us, you must know the history of the land you walk on. February is Black History Month, let’s learn about one of BC’s early Black settlers. And think about the effects of isolation from their communities that many settlers and immigrants face.
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