N.B. anti-racism activist among those receiving Canada Day honours from GG
(WorldNews Canada)

OTTAWA — Ralph Thomas can’t recall any specific incidents of racism against him while growing up as a Black person in New Brunswick in the 1940s and ’50s, but says that was more about the rural community where he lived and not because it didn’t exist. “We protected each other, and I grew up in a white community,” says Thomas, of his upbringing in Willow Grove, about 25 kilometres east of Saint John, N.B. “But my brother and my sister grew up in the city, which was 16 miles from where I grew up, and it was a big difference...