2023 $20 No. 2 Construction Battalion, DCAM PR69DCAM Certification #47988607, PCGS #921875

After facing widespread rejections while trying to enlist for service in the First World War, people in Black communities across Canada pressured the government and military officials to intervene. The No. 2 Construction Battalion was formed in 1916 as a segregated unit – the first and only all-Black battalion-sized formation in Canadian military history. More than 600 men – mostly from Nova Scotia but also from New Brunswick, Ontario, Western Canada, the United States and the West Indies – were initially accepted following a nationwide recruitment effort.