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The Honourable James Valentine Hogarth Milvain was born near Lundbreck in the Livingstone District of the Northwest Territories during a snow storm on Valentine’s Day, 1904. The son of an English immigrant to Canada in 1888, his mother Winnifred Helen MacKintosh was the niece of G.H. MacKintosh, Lieutenant Governor of the NWT.
Frederick Stanley Albright was born in Beamsville, Ontario, on March 23, 1883. After growing up in rural Ontario, Mr. Albright moved to Toronto where he attended Victoria College, University of Toronto receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science in 1908. It was there that he met Evelyn Kelly, born on November 13, 1889, in Owen Sound, Ontario. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and History in 1912.
February marks Black History Month in Canada, when we acknowledge and pay tribute to the complex history of struggle and perseverance that has marked the black Canadian experience.