01/04/2021
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/federal-apology-segregated-military-unit-1.5967363
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.
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.