I was 19 years old when I first heard about Amber Valley.
I was sitting in my Middle Eastern and African studies class in university when my professor casually mentioned a settlement right here in Alberta — one of the largest Black settlements in Western Canada. In my subsequent research, I was floored to realize that this settlement was only a two-hour drive from Edmonton.
How had I never heard of this place or these people? Sure, they weren’t ancestors by blood, but we shared an ancestral journey — a similar unlikely quest that my parents and so many
