Special Purpose Flagpole: Emancipation Day

In observance of Emancipation Day, Region of Queens Municipality is flying the Pan African Flag on the Special Purpose Flagpole at Town Hall Arts & Cultural Centre, 219 Main St., Liverpool, on August 1.

Emancipation Day marks the end of slavery in many British colonies. Canadians are not always aware that Black and Indigenous Peoples were once enslaved on the land that is now Canada. The Slavery Abolition Act of 1834 ended slavery in the British Empire on August 1, 1834. The first colony to have anti-slavery legislation was Upper Canada (modern day Ontario) with the Act Against Slavery 1793.

Learn more on the Canadian Heritage website: https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/emancipation-day.html or online at the Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia: https://emancipationdayns.ca/