Descendants of Canada’s all-Black battalion say ‘justice, healing’ needed — not just a federal apology
Southwestern Ontario descendants of Canada’s first and only segregated military unit say getting justice and “transformative action” for the way the Black members were treated during the First World War, and after their return home, should go beyond getting an apology from the federal government.Members of the No. 2 Construction Battalion on November 1916, during recruitment in…