DYK in 1911 a ban on black immigration was approved in Canada? Laurier’s Cabinet approved Order-in-Council P.C. 1324: to ban Black persons from entering Canada as they were deemed “unsuitable” to the country’s “climate and requirements.” #BHM2018 Order-in-Council P.C. 1324 was approved on 12 August 1911 by the Cabinet of Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier. The purpose of the order was to ban Black persons from entering Canada for a period of one year because, it read, “the Negro race…is deemed unsuitable to the climate and requirements o…