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Jared A. Walker (he/him)
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Senior Strategist @nowgroup. Boards: @UARRToronto @broadbent. Ex Director: Digital, Speechwriting @AndreaHorwath’s ONDP & Comms @theJagmeetSingh 4NDPLdr 🧡+💪🏾
Mar 25, 2019 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
*Things I should've learned in school, but didn't No. 872,381*

I was today years old when I learned that seed money for Hudson's Bay Company (and therefore Canada as we know it) likely came from the trans-Atlantic slave trade. #CDNpoli #CDNhistory

/1 Remember Prince Rupert from Grade 4 Canadian history?

Colonial governor?
Big-time shaper of Canada's political geography?
Guy they named Rupert's Land after?
Founder of the Hudson's Bay Company?

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