Ned Yeung on Nostr: If anybody needs to know who Frank Oliver was, and why the neighborhood in #yeg is ...
If anybody needs to know who Frank Oliver was, and why the neighborhood in #yeg is being renamed.
'Oliver implemented a plan that sought immigrants on the basis of race to encourage British immigrants above all other prospective immigrants in order to maintain the racial integrity of the country.
Frank Oliver published his outspoken views on race in the Edmonton Bulletin including his opinion that agricultural lands around Edmonton were "for better men (than Indians)"'
https://www.michelfirstnation.com/frank-oliver--the-michel-band.html
'Oliver implemented a plan that sought immigrants on the basis of race to encourage British immigrants above all other prospective immigrants in order to maintain the racial integrity of the country.
Frank Oliver published his outspoken views on race in the Edmonton Bulletin including his opinion that agricultural lands around Edmonton were "for better men (than Indians)"'
https://www.michelfirstnation.com/frank-oliver--the-michel-band.html