Via the Globe and Mail, a good article by Tom Hawthorn about Rosemary Brown: Postal honour for a woman who put her own stamp on Canada. And the story mentions the pioneers:
This province has a rich lore of black history, a story well told in Crawford Killian's Go Do Some Great Thing, which was released in a revised edition in November. Among the earliest settlers was a prosperous merchant named Mifflin Gibbs, who was elected to town council in Victoria.
He also financed the Victoria Pioneer Rifles, British Columbia's first militia unit. Imagine the sight greeting American prospectors coming north to seek their fortune in the gold fields - a militia of free black men. This land would be different than that to the south.
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