Sheri Forde

For those of you who have claimed that racism doesn’t live in Canada, here is my story: “This land used to belong to John Ware. They called him “N***** John”…but the times being what they are, we can’t use that word any more”. Those were the exact words that came out of my father’s mouth as he proudly parked his truck at the edge of the coulee of his newly purchased ranch in Southern Alberta. These jarring words were among the first spoken by my father to my future husband, Duane Forde.