The identities and stories of the six men in this photograph shot in London, Ont., in 1918 are included on the Black Canadian Veterans Stories website. The men were deployed to France and England shortly after the photo was taken. (Black Canadian Veterans)
Ontario historian Kathy Grant, whose Barbadian father served as a volunteer in the Canadian Armed Forces during the Second World War, has been researching Canada’s Black soldiers for years, digitizing their photographs and records and posting their stories on social media.
But it was only last month that she was able to launch the website Black Canadian Veterans Stories, funded
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