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The U.S. marks the abolition of slavery on June 19th. Canada's emancipation day was August 1, 1834. @MONTECRISTO_mag's Tom Hawthorn explains the history of slavery in Canada, how its ending has been celebrated by Black Canadians for nearly two centuries, and its enduring mark on the country. "Those who owned slaves were neither pilloried nor punished. Many were honoured, and the names of Canadian slaveowners dot the landscape, including Jarvis Street in Toronto, named for Samuel Peters Jarvis, the scion of a louche, slave-owning family that owned six humans and lobbied for extending slavery even in the face of an abolitionist public sentiment."

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