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Yvonne Phillpotts at Kingston Public Hospital

This is a flyer advertising a discussion forum hosted by Black CAP (The Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention) surrounding HIV positive Black women. This is one of many public initiatives launched by the organizations aimed at educating different…

The birth record of Oscar Cornwall Mortimer, Nancy Elvina Alexander's grandson

This runaway advertisement reveals one of the most common forms of resistance among enslaved Black folks in colonial Canada: flight. While there are countless records of messages like this one posted in newspapers by slave owners, exposing the…

Newspaper page from The Clarion about Viola Desmond's Court Case, discussing what the case is about and when the trial will occur.

excerpt from the Mail Star showing how a professor at the University of Toronto was being brought to Halifax to study the rehousing of Africville families

3 columns depicting the finishes of each event performed

Photograph of children in Africville

This is a picture of a few nurses working at the St. Michael’s Hospital. Judy Allen(in the middle), a Jamaican born nurse who came to the hospital in 1972 as a qualified Registered Nurse with hopes of new opportunities in Canada. She recalls her…

A sketch of Richard Preston, key figure in the formation of the Campbell Road Baptist Church in Africville