2022 CANADA 1OZ SILVER PROOF BLACK HISTORY – THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

This beautiful one ounce silver proof coin is an ode to those who risked it all following the stars to freedom. At the end of their long journey freedom had a name: “the promised land” that is present-day Canada.

From the early 1800s through 1865, at least 30,000 enslaved people of African descent fled to British North America by way of a covert network of routes and safe houses. Many of these freedom seekers—men, women and children—travelled by foot, and often at night to avoid re-capture. Once in Canada, they found refuge in Black communities and settled in parts of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, where they were secure in their freedom, but not free from discrimination.