The First Black African Engineer, Great-Grandfather of Alexander Pushkin
- Speaker: Jean-Pierre Raymond
- When: Thursday, February 20, 2020; 19:30 - 21:00
- Where: Centennial Hall,
- 288 Beaconsfield Blvd, Beaconsfield, H9W 4A4
Lecture in English followed by a bilingual question period
February is Black History Month. Abraham Hanibal (Ganibal in Russian), born on the shore of Lake Chad in what is today Cameroon, was among the unlucky black to be made slave. But he got the unbelievable good fortune to become the adoptive son of the Tsar of Russia, Peter the Great, and will receive an engineer training in France.
The subject is presented by the retired engineer and history buff Jean-Pierre Raymond.
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