Kathy

Founder-Legacy Voices Project
Promoting Black Canadian Veterans and Black Canadian History
A not-for-profit to document and digitize their stories

[Kathy @kathylvorg]

'Thank you CBC for the capital "B" My dad, myself, our veterans and our community are thankful Dad, I'm going to help you': fulfilling a promise to preserve the memory of Black veterans https://t.co/HoVpNYVeAg

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@CanadasHistory Congratulations Mr.Leone Andreea Izzo for your 2023 GG History Award for Excellence in Teaching. It was my absolute pleasure to share knowledge and visual resources linked to No2 Construction with YRDSB. i look forward to seeing the websites the students produced. -Kathy Grant

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@roxy_0125 @BowersWrites Hi Steph we profiled Eric Watts on our website and also created a family tree in Ancestry.

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@HomeChildrenCan 17 Mar 1916 This letter was sent from George Martin to Colonel Cruickshank re Benjamin Washington being rejected enlistment because he was Black

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Watch the video featuring historian Kathy Grant and No 2 Construction Proud to have been a part of it.

[York Region DSB @YRDSB]

No. 2 Construction Battalion were Black soldiers who volunteered in WW1 and have been known as Canada's Best Kept Military Secret.

Watch this video with Kathy Grant, Founder of The Legacy Voices Project and Captain Kevin Junor, Toronto Scottish Regiment: https://t.co/0XiNxQXmXb

[Kathy @kathylvorg]

@dwightdrummond Wow....Nathan and you don't resemble each other. Hope it gets sorted.

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[York Region DSB @YRDSB]

YRDSB developed a Google My-Map featuring the No. 2 Construction Battalion, Canada's first and only segregated battalion in the First World War.

Hear from Oscar Peterson PS students who explored this resource about the No. 2 Construction Battalion.

https://t.co/8AA6VWouQG

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@CPCC_CCPC Oustanding

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@AnitaAnandMP @fordnation It was a privilege to visit the 1920 memorial tablet commemorating honouring the men of No.2 Construction Battalion who died in service. This was the 1920 event.

[Kathy @kathylvorg]

@blmcanada @WildseedCentre_ Re the stolen plaque...The city has requested funds to replace it.

[Kathy @kathylvorg]

@blmcanada @WildseedCentre_ Kathy Grant here. In 2019 we had the Africentric Schools grade 1/2 students create a 65th Anniversary exhibit honoring Donald Moore. The plaque was stolen from in front of 20 Cecil St. My father Owen Rowe was the first speaker there in November 1956.

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@HMCS_NCSM_YORK @RCAF_ARC Kathy Grant Historian We are highlighting father Albert Carty of No 2 Construction Battalion in a video this month.

[Kathy @kathylvorg]

@LibraryArchives @HMCS_NCSM_YORK @RCAF_ARC Kathy Grant historian and we are featuring Albert Carty in our educational video this month . Black Canadian Veterans

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@brucefmacdonald Thank you Bruce for all your assistance thus far on the
bios for No2 Construction Bn soldiers we are now with Find a Grave and the Great War Project.

[Kathy @kathylvorg]

Remembering my dad Owen Rowe...Saturday he would have celebrated his 100th Birthday

[Toronto Catholic District School Board @TCDSB]

Owen Rowe wrote the poem a Soldier’s Farewell in 1942, before he left as a volunteer solider for Canada in World War II. #TCDSBRemembers

↪️ https://t.co/qcap4msoZw

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We are heading to Montreal to gather more stories. New website documents over 150 years of Black military service in Canada - Legion Magazine https://t.co/0WH2i7tjse

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Hey Twitter . Youth singing Danny Boy to honour No 2. https://t.co/XfeQgzPaub Watch

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No 2 Construction Watch https://t.co/xeH93Mr0ZM

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Thank you Bruce!

[Bruce F. MacDonald @brucefmacdonald]

Informative CBC news item on a new website, created in conjunction with the upcoming formal apology to No. 2 Construction Battalion: https://t.co/dYTlSYo55a