It's 1992, and 200 years have passed since the exodus of over a thousand Black people from the Maritime provinces to Sierra Leone, Africa. In this 1992 CBC Television interview from Halifax, Joyce Ross describes her journey across the Atlantic to follow the route of her predecessors to Freetown.

When young black Canadian men wanted to join the fight overseas during the First World War, they were told it was "a white man's war." Some persevered, joined the military, and were later assigned to the all-black Number 2 Construction Battalion. Calvin Ruck, a civil rights activist, worked to make Canadians aware of their story.