A Calgary Heritage Moment: Did you Know Canada’s FIRST Female Black Lawyer is from Calgary? -Beckler & Seanna Explain
February is Black History Month, the perfect time to celebrate one of Alberta’s most impactful lawyers: Violet King. Violet was born in Calgary in 1929. Her grandparents moved from Oklahoma to Keystone Alberta, (which we now know as Breton Alberta) in 1911. At the time the Kings were drawn to Canada’s federal campaign enticing American […]