A historian documenting stories like one of the few surviving Black Canadian WWII veterans says it's important to remember Canada's Black veterans.
Alvie Burden, 100, is one of the few surviving Black Canadian Second World War veterans. A historian documenting stories like his says it's important to remember Canada's Black veterans.
Alvie was living in B.C. when he joined the Canadian military at 19 years old, but since he was born in Tisdale, Sask., in 1922, he was sent off to the Prairies to join the Saskatoon Light Infantry division as a dispatch rider.Reuniting with best friend from the military"I met him in Montreal, where we went on the boat to England and then to Sicily," Alvie said.
Despite that, Alvie returned and started carrying machine guns on a half-track as the driver of a Bren gun carrier. "There were hundreds that were turned away because of the commanding officer, but not because of policy," she said.Things changed in the Second World War, and while some commanders still turned away applicants, Black Canadians joined the military much more easily.
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