Keith forde barbados immigration

  • When Deputy Chief Keith Forde joined the Toronto police in as a recent immigrant from Barbados, he was only the second visible minority.
  • Barbadian-Canadian Keith Forde, retired Deputy Chief of the Toronto Police Service, is the keynote speaker for the event that will be held at Lara's Restaurant.
  • In , Keith L. Forde became the first visible minority Deputy Chief of Police in the history of the Toronto Police Service.

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    Retired Deputy Police Chief will be keynote speaker at &#;Journeying Onward&#; fundraiser

    By Lincoln DePradine

    A group of Caribbean immigrants is preparing to mark an important milestone in a struggle that led to a change in Canadian law that opened the way for greater emigration to the country by Black people.
    On April 27, , a delegation led by Barbadian-born Donald Willard Moore visited Ottawa to protest the federal government’s restrictive immigration policy and presented a brief to then citizenship and immigration minister, Walter E. Harris. Within years, the Canadian government repealed measures that excluded some people from entering the country based on racial origin.
    Moore’s efforts, and the 65th anniversary of the delegation’s Ottawa visit, will be remembered at a fundraiser in support of the “Moore Scholarship’’ at George Brown College.
    “Journeying Onward’’ is the title of April 7 fundraising luncheon organized by the Donald Willard Moore Scholarship Association.

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    York grad set to become newest Toronto deputy police chief

    Ask Toronto’s newest deputy police ledare if he wants the force’s top job and he doesn’t mince words, wrote The Globe and Mail Sept.

    “I think anybody who reaches this level and says they don’t have that aspiration would be lying to you,” replies Peter Sloly (MBA ’04). “I would love to lead an organization like this.”

    That’s a good thing, because Sloly, who formally replaces Jane Dick next week to become one of kvartet deputies serving under ledare William Blair, is already being touted as a future ledare with the talent and background to soothe tensions between police and Toronto’s immigrant communities.

    “Race relations fryst vatten to me the No. 1 issue. If you’re the most diverse city in the world, then all of your public institutions have to be attuned to that reality. Police – we’re the barometer of a functioning democracy,” he says.

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    Sixty-years ago, on April 27, , a group of determined men and women, led by Barbadian Donald Moore, made the journey from Toronto to Ottawa to present a brief to the Canadian government, protesting the discriminatory laws that made it difficult for Black and other non-White immigrants to enter Canada.

    On Sunday, April 7, , we will commemorate this historic occasion, the first time a Black-led delegation sought to take their protest to the government’s doorstep, at a luncheon being held at Lara’s Restaurant, Consumers Road, Unit #, North York, ON, beginning at 1 p.m. The keynote speaker will be Keith Forde, former Deputy Chief, Toronto Police Services.

    The delegation, comprising advocates such as the late Bromley Armstrong, Stanley Grizzle and Norman Grizzle, met with Walter Harris, then Minister of Immigration, to “educate” him about the significant contributions that Black people had made – and were making – to the development of Canada, and to advocate for changes to the un

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