Did you know that there was a battalion of black soldiers in the Canadian Army during the First World War? Long ignored, the members of the 2nd Construction Battalion contributed enormously to the war effort!

Want to find out more? Discover the story of one of its members, Henry Courtney, with our coordinator Anthony Badame’s article: The Courtney Brothers: A Case-Study on Enlistment of Black Soldiers in the First World War. Finally, would you like to contribute to the history of the 2nd Construction Battalion? Library and Archives Canada invites the public to help translate and describe the pages of the Battalion’s war diary. Visit the page via this link.

Article written by Julien Lehoux for Je Me Souviens.