In some corners of the country, land acknowledgements are already paired with 'African ancestry' acknowledgements

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Just as Indigenous land acknowledgements become a ubiquitous aspect of Canadian life, activists are attempting to normalize a second  acknowledgement that would similarly precede every single speech, meeting or public event in the country.

This was on view at the City of Toronto’s official Remembrance Day ceremony.

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After a standard land acknowledgement mentioning the various First Nations whose traditional territories overlap with the City of Toronto, attendees were also asked to acknowledge “those who were brought here involuntarily; particularly those brought to these lands as a result of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and slavery.”

Land acknowledgment and reminder of slavery on Remembrance Day in ⁦@cityoftoronto⁩ pic.twitter.com/eI3Ps34o1R

While Toronto does indeed sit atop land that used to be Indigenous, the historical claims in the slavery acknowledgement are less accurate.

As outlined in a recent report for the Aristotle Foundation, African slavery was