“The Canadian government plans to formally apologize to members of the No. 2 Construction Battalion — the country’s first and only segregated military unit — for the treatment they endured during and following their service in the First World War.
Many Black men were rejected from enlisting during the First World War because of their skin colour, so Canada allowed them to form the No. 2 Construction Battalion in 1916. Nearly half of the battalion’s 600 members came from Nova Scotia.”
https://www.cbc.ca/…/federal-apology-segregated-military-un…