If you take a look at the records at Library and Archives Canada, you will see multiple examples. To give you one example, they were recruiting a person in Manitoba. He was a medical student. His name was Hewburn Greenidge. When he went to get examined, the military doctor said to the civilian doctor, “I'm glad that you are examining the nigger.” Those words are right there at Library and Archives Canada. There are multiple examples in there. Some of the language you really can't present in schools. A lot of times you have to shade it out.
Those are some examples. There are at least 10 or 15 examples. When they went to be recruited in Toronto, and they asked if they'd be willing to accept a platoon, not a single group said that they would accept a platoon into their group. They went to about 75 of them. Those records are actually at Library and Archives Canada. They've already been digitized. Some would say that they were a kilted regiment and that they would draw the line when it came to getting Black soldiers, or that if Black soldiers came in, it would prevent white soldiers, or the proper soldiers, from getting in.
Those are some of the examples of racism that we saw. I know that members of the Black community wanted to serve and wanted to get in from the beginning. It was just the restrictions from the commanding officers who said no, but we do have some who went to Ypres and Vimy and whatever. We have examples.
Thank you.