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The Fight to Fight: The No 2 Construction Battalion
The Canadian Encyclopedia
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6 years ago
The Fight to Fight: The No 2 Construction Battalion
The No. 2 Construction Battalion—also known as the Black Battalion—was authorized on 5 July 1916, during the First World War. It was a segregated non-combatant unit, the first and only all-Black battalion in Canadian military history.
The Canadian Encyclopedia
The Canadian Encyclopedia offers more than 19,500 bilingual articles focused on Canada and Canadiana, and now offers a podcast. Each episode is produced with input from subject experts and fact-checked for accuracy.
