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Originally Posted by dreambrother808
Segregation existed in Canada as did slavery, just on a smaller scale.
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Usually this kind of discussion generates more heat than light on the issue. Canadians in general don't seem to know much about their own history in this area and rely a lot on Hollywood or American media, or anecdotes that highlight historical exceptions rather than norms.
As one example Viola Desmond has been lauded as Canada's Rosa Parks. But the Roseland Theatre incident happened in 1946 while the Rosa Parks' bus boycott was in 1955. More importantly, Rosa Parks fought segregation laws while in the case of Viola Desmond there was no segregation law; it was a question over whether or not a private business owner could discriminate by race. It's an important case and interesting story but it doesn't prove that Canada was like Alabama in the 1950's.
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