Today families, schools and all community institutions share the responsibility for preparing young people for living and learning in a global culture. Canada has always been shaped by the confluence of multiple cultures on its shores. How did we receive culture? How did we create belonging and open opportunities? These stories implicitly beg these questions. All Canadians can learn from this journey.

The ABC’s helps young people acquire an empowering set of “navigational” skills which include the ability to:

Access unknown information from a variety of sources.

Analyze and explore how history is “constructed”.

Evaluate the stories’ explicit and implicit messages against one’s own ethical, moral and/or democratic principles.

Express or create their own messages using a variety of media tools.

Today families, schools and all community institutions share the responsibility for preparing young people for living and learning in a global culture. Canada has always been shaped by the confluence of multiple cultures on its shores. How did we receive culture? How did we create belonging and open opportunities? These stories implicitly beg these questions. All Canadians can learn from this journey.

Blacbiblio began in 2006 with the mission to educate Canadians about their unknown Black history. In 2010, in response to the lack of Black Canadian stories in schools across the country, we began to develop the ABC’s of Canadian Black History Kit: A Journey of Discovery into Canadian History.

The Kit, launched at McGill University in 2016 encompasses science, sports, history, business, education, politics, and geography among other topics. It spotlights 26 historical characters and events within Canada. With its fascinating Canadian Black stories, it will bring diversity and inclusion into your classroom.