Discovering Levi’s® Link to Canada’s First Black Cowboy

Widely regarded as Canada’s first Black cowboy, John Ware was born into slavery around 1845 in the southern United States. Following emancipation, he moved to Texas, where he found ranching work and in 1882 was hired to drive 3,000 head of cattle north to the Bar U Ranch in southern Alberta. He remained on the Alberta… The post Discovering Levi’s® Link to Canada’s First Black Cowboy appeared first on Levi Strauss & Co .