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This article reacts to the previously mentioned statistics that were released on AIDS cases according to race in Toronto. It highlights the dilemma that releasing such figures implied for all of the Black groups that made up Toronto’s population. On…

A bird’s-eye panoramic map showing the city of Brantford in 1875: streets, waterways, buildings, surrounding landscape and grid layout as it existed in the late 19th century.

Sharrers (left) escorting Dustin Byfuglien to the penalty box

Issue of a 19th-century legal periodical from Upper Canada, containing law reports, court notices, and local courts’ gazette material for the period.

Short 1860 newspaper report describing the preliminary hearing of John Anderson (also known as Jack Burton), who was accused of killing S.T.P. Diggs in Missouri and arrested in Simcoe. The article summarizes the extradition proceedings, witness…

An 1860 editorial discussing the John Anderson extradition case in relation to the Ashburton Treaty and the slave code of the Southern States. The article argues that surrendering fugitives like Anderson (referred to here as “the slave Jones”) would…